Center for the Public Domain
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The Center for the Public Domain was a charitable foundation created in 1999 by Bob Young as the Red Hat Center for Open Source.[1][2][3] Until 2002, it provided free online legal resources, sponsored public domain spaces on the Internet, and campaigned for copyright reforms.[4][5][6]
The Center dissolved itself in March 2002, after distributing about $12 million in grants, primarily to four organizations: ibiblio, Public Knowledge, Creative Commons, and the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at the Duke University School of Law.[1]