RE: Showing sample and proprietary content

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Sean Wheller wrote: 
 
> On Friday 20 October 2006 21:13, Joe Malin wrote:
> > Public domain? That means that no copyright exists.
> 
> No, it means that the work can be obtained publically, like 
> downloading it from the corporate website. It's not the same 
> as Public License under Creative Commons.

>From American Heritage Dictionary: 

   1. Land owned and controlled by the state or federal government.
   2. The status of publications, products, and processes that are not
protected under patent or copyright.

>From Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law: 

1 : land owned directly by the government
2 : the realm or status of property rights that belong to the community
at large, are unprotected by copyright or patent, and are subject to
appropriation by anyone

>From Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: 

(PD) The total absence of copyright protection. If
something is "in the public domain" then anyone can copy it or
use it in any way they wish. The author has none of the
exclusive rights which apply to a copyright work.

Joe's right. "Public domain" does *not* mean "publicly available." 

Richard


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Polycom, Inc.
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303-223-5111
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