is a legal Latin term, approximately translating to English as "of public right". An example is water in the sea.[1]
Many times referred to in discussion of property rights in law.
"But the news element - the information respecting current events contained in the literary production - is not the creation of the writer, but is a report of matters that ordinarily are ; it is history of the day." International News Service v. Associated Press, 248 U.S. 215, 234 (1918).
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