Public Domains: Engaging Iraq Through Experimental Digitalities

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  • PZPatricia Rodden. Zimmermann
    Patricia Rodden. Zimmermann
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Abstract
Public domain, or PD, crosses through the new media ecology—works for which copyright has either expired or never existed. An archive with no doors and no rules, public domain presents the open text that can commingle with other texts. Public domain means works exempt from proprietary interests that form our common aesthetic, cultural and intellectual landscape.1 This category is not stable, of course: works change their passport status and migrate from proprietary to public domain continually, rapidly, and fluidly. Nor is this category universal, as public domain often implies countries of the global north that comply with the Berne Conventions.

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