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We The People' is public domain, any American can use that.
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How much information I want to put out in the public domain is my prerogative.
Shibani Dandekar /
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I wouldn't want anything on my personal life making its way into the public domain.
Upasana Singh /
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All the NASA footage is in the public domain, and it's so beautiful; it's really stunning.
Stephanie Savage /
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The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.
Kevin Mccloud / Designer
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
Florentijn Hofman /
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I believe in copyright, within limited precincts. But I also believe in fair use, public domain, and especially transformation.
David Shields / Author
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Every time you write an email, it is in the public domain. There are all these ways where security is not as good as people believe.
Peter Thiel / Entrepreneur
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Email
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I do watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' with my children at Christmas, and I liked it long before it went into the public domain and became a cliche.
Edward Zwick / Filmmaker
Christmas
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No country anywhere in the world allows material that genuinely puts national security at risk into the public domain, and that includes a courtroom.
Kenneth Clarke / Former Minister Without Portfolio
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National Security
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Once you thrust yourself out there in the public domain, it's really hard to retreat, to say no or reclaim that certain part of your life as private.
Theo Epstein / Manager
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I don't want my personal life to become a part of public domain. It is something that is sacred and means a lot to me. I don't want it to become some frivolous gossip column.
Ileana D'cruz /
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By bringing out into the public domain how human institutions actually behave, we can understand frankly, to a degree, for the first time the civilization that we actually have.
Julian Assange / Journalist
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If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.
John Mcafee / Computer Programmer
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Environment
Program
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Accessible
Directory
Programs
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By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.
Lawrence Lessig / Political Activist
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Apples
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Fall
Macintosh
Public Domain
Software
Term
Unlimited
Apple
By The Time
Effectively
Finally
Operating
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Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges.
John Sayles / Film Director
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Every Night
Film
Information
News
Night
People
Public Domain
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Bush
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Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.
John Mcafee / Computer Programmer
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Limits
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Roots
Software
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I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do.
Anita Elberse /
Sports
Data
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Games
Movie Industry
Numbers
Public Domain
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Too Much
Watching Television
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Sales
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They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases.
John Perry Barlow / Poet
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Cases
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Forgotten
Goods
Illegal
Ought
Public Domain
Purpose
Trading
Claim
Public
Networks
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There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.
Louis Stokes / Politician
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So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.
Clare Short / British Politician
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CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.
Heather Brooke /
Technology
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Behaviour
Data
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Dystopia
Effectiveness
Public Domain
Quantity
Streets
Surveillance
Little
About
Very
Seen
Civil
Continue
Costs
Public
Either
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Solid
Symbol
While
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Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'
Samuel Barnett / Actor
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Fine
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Account
I Am Me Doing
I Am Me Sometimes
Me I Am Way
Me I Am Sometimes
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I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.
Tawakkol Karman / Journalist
Religion
Activism
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Practice
Public Domain
Relate
Suitable
Traditional
Work Religion People
Associate
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Off
Wear
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My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of 'public domain' and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it.
Genie Francis / Actress
Developmental
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You can't put the Hollywood sign in a movie without paying them. That is a landmark in L.A. I'm sorry, remove it from our skyline, then. You know? How dare they. That should be public domain, right? But it's privately owned, and they enforce that. They sue people. If you see it in the movie, they've paid for that.
Dax Shepard / Actor
Movie
Dare
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Hollywood
Paid
Public Domain
Remove
Sorry
People Know See
Public
Enforce
Landmark
Owned
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'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not.
Mark Helprin / Novelist
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Businesses
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