Works In ‘Public Domain' When Copyright Expires: An Overview

Introduction:

Literary, theatrical, musical, artistic, and architectural works, as well as films and sound recordings, are all protected under Copyright law. In addition, Indian Copyright law defines 'literary works' to include books, computer programmes, compilations, and tables as part of the definition. The law, on the other hand, does not use the availability of content to the general public or a subset of the general public as a criterion for determining whether or not it is in the public domain. On the contrary, whether or not content is in the public domain is determined by whether or not it is copyright protected.(The term "public domain" is not defined in the copyright statute.) The content enters the public domain only when copyright no longer exists in protected content. The most usual way for this to happen is when the copyright term associated with the content expires. This blog will provide an overview of what happens when a creative work's copyright