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The Public Domain Mark was developed by Creative Commons [1] [2] and is only an indicator of the public domain status of a work – it itself does not release a copyrighted work into the public domain like CC0. The symbol is encoded in Unicode as U+1F16E CIRCLED C WITH OVERLAID BACKSLASH, [3] which was added in Unicode 13.0 in March 2020. [4]
In the case of reproductions of works specified in subsection (n) of section 5 of this title ["Sound recordings"], the notice shall consist of the symbol ℗, (the letter P in a circle), the year of first publication of the sound recording, and the name of the owner of copy right in the sound recording, or an abbreviation by which the name can ...
Free music or libre music is music that, like free software, can freely be copied, distributed and modified for any purpose. Thus free music is either in the public domain or licensed under a free license by the artist or copyright holder themselves, often as a method of promotion.
The organization was founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred [5] with the support of Center for the Public Domain. The first article in a general interest publication about Creative Commons, written by Hal Plotkin, was published in February 2002. [6] The first set of copyright licenses was released in December 2002. [7]
On 8 February 2016, a court ruled that the children's song "Happy Birthday to You" was in the public domain and Warner/Chappell Music was required to pay $14 million to the song's licensees. [10] In October 2020, American humorist Tom Lehrer released his entire catalogue, dating back to the 1950s, into the public domain. [11]
However, in paying public domain regimes the user may still have to pay royalties to the state or to an authors' association. Courts in common law countries, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, have rejected the doctrine of a common law copyright. Public domain works should not be confused with works that are publicly available.
The Musopen project records music in the public domain for the purposes of making the music available to the general public in a high-quality audio format. Online musical archives preserve collections of classical music recorded by Musopen and offer them for download/distribution as a public service.
The copyright symbol, or copyright sign, designated by (a circled capital letter "C"), is the symbol used in copyright notices for works other than sound recordings.