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Poster:	MPDMedia	Date:	Oct 23, 2023 5:51am
Forum:	audio	Subject:	Re: Copyright questions

US copyright law is complicated, and since Archive is based in the US...
https://www.copyright.gov/title17/title17.pdf
https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html
"Anyone can use a public domain work without obtaining permission, but no one can ever own it. An important wrinkle to understand about public domain material is that, while each work belongs to the public, collections of public domain works may be protected by copyright."
https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/public-domain/welcome/#:~:text=Anyone%20can%20use%20a%20public,may%20be%20protected%20by%20copyright.

"Can you copyright public domain works?
While a copy of a public domain work gains no new copyright, a curated selection of public domain works may have a new copyright, protecting, for example, the order of appearance of those works (e.g. A collection of public domain postcards may have protection over the order and placement of these images)."
https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain#:~:text=While%20a%20copy%20of%20a,and%20placement%20of%20these%20images).