From the US copyright office website:
/W*here is the public domain?
* The public domain is not a place. A work of authorship is in the
“public domain” if it is no longer under copyright protection or if it
failed to meet the requirements for copyright protection. Works in the
public domain may be used freely without the permission of the former
copyright owner. /
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-definitions.html
Although Rex may have been using a looser definition of the phrase.
On 06/01/2012 14:51, Brian Ellis wrote:
> Sorry, Rex, if it were in the public domain, the IPC cannot hold the
> copyright or, if the IPC hold the copyright, then it is certainly not in
> the public domain. You can't have your cake and eat it. The only way a
> paper can be in the public domain is if the authors and their employers
> make a public written statement to this effect. The only way the IPC
> could hold the copyright is if the authors and their employers have
> collectively assigned it by means of a contract. Whether the employers
> or authors or both collectively depend on the contract of employment or,
> in individual cases, any waivers.
>
> As an example of IP, about 50 years ago, I made my first major
> invention. My contract stated that all intellectual property belonged to
> my employer. After negotiation, I obtained a waiver and I patented the
> idea myself but the waiver contained a clause that the employer could
> exploit the patent without payment of royalties but I received royalties
> from three other companies that exploited the idea. The reasoning behind
> this generous waiver was because it was very accessory to the employer's
> core business, used internally, and they did not want to exploit the
> idea themselves externally.
>
> Brian
>
> On 06/01/2012 13:10, Rex Waygood wrote:
>> Moisture Measurements in PCBs and Impact of Design on Desorption
>> Behaviour
>> Chris Hunt, Owen Thomas& Martin Wickham
>> National Physical Laboratory
>> Teddington, UK
>>
>>
>> I understand that this paper is in the public domain and that the IPC
>> own the copyright.
>> However NPL do a lot of work of this calibre which either does not go
>> into the public domain or only limited results go into the public
>> domain.
>> The work is done in a collaborative way as can be seen at the end of the
>> paper where there is a reference to Joint Industry Projects (JIPs) and
>> the companies that funded the work.
>> Having been involved in one of these JIPs and both enjoyed our
>> involvement and benefited from it by being able to influence the
>> direction the JIP took I would highly recommend involvement. You can
>> contact Chris Hunt at NPL.
>> Being involved in the JIP means you are able to access all the
>> experimental results and not worry about copyright.
>> I would point out I have no financial link to NPL.
>>
>> Regards
>> Rex
>>
>>
>> Rex Waygood
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