Graphic Notes On The Public Domain Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Graphic Notes on the Public Domain States and origin OF the public domain 'in a short Span of about 70 years, a new nation, the United States of America, acquired sovereignty over a vast empire of 2 billion acres, spanning the North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific. In the course of this process, and by the subsequent acquisition of Alaska, the United States Government became the owner of a huge estate, known as the public domain and covering an area of 1 billion hoo million acres in the United States proper and 365 million acres in alaska. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.