Companies are unlikely to file many more patents for human DNA molecules-most are already patented or in the public domain.

公司不太可能再为人类 DNA申请更多的专利——大多数要么已经被其他公司申请了专利，要么处于公共领域。

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From the profusion of electronic-text sites available, it looks as if this virtual library is here to stay unless a proposed revision to copyright law takes many publications out of the public domain.

从现有的大量电子文本网站来看，除非版权法的修订提案将许多出版物排除在公共领域之外，否则这个虚拟图书馆似乎将继续存在。

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The information has been placed in the public domain.

这资料不受版权保护。

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Scotland's most senior prosecutor Elish Angiolini maintains a court is the only appropriate forum for determining guilt or innocence and she says she deplores Megrahi's efforts to put his information out into the public domain via the Internet.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

That brings out the short-sellers, who need more of the bad information in the public domain.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The escalation of these issues in the public domain needs, I believe, a clear response.

BBC: Harlequins chairman stands down

Hopefully, I can claim that I am only quoting material in the public domain.

FORBES: The Malaysian Third Way: A Public-Private Partnership