To native Americans, by the way, everything was in the public domain, belonging to one and all, as they had no such notions of private property, land ownership, etc, which are all concepts of the pale face (white people).
“These lands were obtained from the 13 original colonies, from Native American tribes...”. “Forcibly” obtained it was too, as Wikipedia might as well have added.
As regarding intellectual property, Wikipedia traces one of the term’s first uses to France, explaining:
The term public domain did not appear in early copyright law, which was first established in Britain with the Statute of Anne 1709. Though the concept did exist and 18 Century British and French jurists used terms such as publici juris or propriété publique to describe works that were not covered by copyright law.[5] The phrase “fall in the public domain” can be traced to mid 19th Century France to describe the end of copyright term. The French poet Alfred de Vigny equated the expiration of copyright with a work falling “into the sink hole of the public domain”.
In short, what’s in the public domain do not belong to any individual, in contrast to what’s in the private domain, such as one’s home. When you read such a sentence as “she treats her office as her private domain”, you may infer that the boss treats her colleagues rudely, say, shouting at them as though she were at home giving orders to her husband and children. Sounds like many a Chinese mother, I know.
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