public domain

no exclusive intellectual property rights apply
Class type of: public good Q19652
public domain

Facts

15 properties
Instance of
copyright status, legal term or legal concept, law[3][4]
Subclass of
public good
Short name
PD, 🅮[11][12]
Hashtag
PublicDomain[16]
Model item
public domain music, ineligible for copyright protection, Wikidata item[20][21][22]
Opposite of
copyrighted[6]
Permanent duplicated item
public domain[17]
Said to be the same as
DP[5]
Topic has template
Template:PD[10]
🏷️ Also known as
en DP en out of copyright en PD en public domain en 🅮 ar خارج حقوق النشر ar النطاق العام ar ملكيه عامه ar نطاق عام ar الملك العام ar ملكية عامة cs volná díla cs public domain cs volné dílo da Offentlig ejendom de Public-Domain de Public Domain de Gemeinfrei de Gemeinfreiheit de frei von Urheberrechten
🔖 Identifiers · 30
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85108633
OpenAlex ID
C512654426
Arab Encyclopedia concept ID
14834
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300055611
Catalogo Nazionale Dati ID
licences/A1_PublicDomain
Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID
public-domain
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/public-domain
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
domaine-public
FAST ID
1082223
Fandom wiki ID
public-domain
Freebase ID
/m/05smz
Show all 30 identifiers +18
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
public_domain
Harper's tag
public-domain
J9U entity ID
987007546172205171
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
public-domain
Jewish Encyclopedia ID
5261
LC and MARC vocabularies ID
preservation/copyrightStatus/pub
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
512654426
NL CR AUT ID
ph609499
Quora topic ID
Public-Domain
RationalWiki ID
Public_domain
SVKKL authority ID
0406171-volne-dilo
TDKIV Wikibase ID
red
TDKIV term ID
000014990
TV Tropes ID
Main/PublicDomain
Topic's main category
Category:Public domain
UNESCO Thesaurus ID
concept1153
WikiKids ID
Publiek_domein
Zhihu topic ID
19683395

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Summary

public domain is a copyright status[1]. It is a type of public good[2].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for public domain include Public Domain Day[24], an observance[25], founded in 2004[26] and Public Domain Map[27], an open data project[28], founded in 2021[29].

Why It Matters

Entities named for public domain include Public Domain Day[24], an observance[25], founded in 2004[26] and Public Domain Map[27], an open data project[28], founded in 2021[29].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . xn--abkrzung-85a.info. Retrieved . xn--abkrzung-85a.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . creativecommons.org. creativecommons.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 19w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → public-domain
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: public-domain, Matched to public domain (#289949742) in Harper's ta…"
  2. 22w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0406171-volne-dilo
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: 0406171-volne-dilo, batch #259494"
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