In addition, many internet users and website owners believe that just because they get material and content on the internet, that this
material is in the public domain.
Also, if it was published in 1963 or earlier and there was an initial claim of copyright but the copyright was not renewed, it would
also be in the public domain.
No specifics of the contract in that particular
case are in the public domain so this is not an attempt to analyse the rights of the club or of the player.
Since a passport is a federal government document, it is also not protected by trademark or copyright laws — the exterior, generic design of a
passport is in the public domain.
If the
text is in public domain, there is no problem of plagiarism legally, though the issue of scientific credibility remains.
Labour is moving leftwards, not necessarily far left, but my point is that there are many unknowns such as the McClusky / union ties, or any kind of policy
which is in the public domain which are yet to play out.
Once the
information is in the public domain in the contemporary global internet digital age an injunction becomes pointless (PJS v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 393, [2016] All ER (D) 120 (Apr) on appeal to the Supreme Court).