From the monthly archives: May 2010

The Size of the Public Domain (Without Term Extensions)

By Rufus Pollock On May 26, 2010 · 25 Comments

We’ve looked at the size of the public domain extensively in earlier posts.

The basic take away from the analysis was the finding that, based on library catalogue data, for books in the UK, approximately 15-20% of work was in the public domain — with public domain work being pretty old (70 [...]

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