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by ric2b 1913 days ago
> The US has the right idea with public domain, but that concept doesn't really exist anywhere else in the world

It does in my country, Portugal, at least: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom%C3%ADnio_p%C3%BAblico

And it sounds like it comes from some "Berne convention" in which a lot of other countries also participated.