The first of these options -- though common in
the discourse of copyright law -- is vulnerable to criticism as naively positivist.
See, for example, Jessica Litman, "The Public Domain," Emory Law
Journal 39 (1990): 965, 996; Jane Ginsburg, "Sabotaging and Reconstructing
History: A Comment on the Scope of Copyright Protection in Works of History after
Hoehling v. Universal City Studios," Bulletin of the Copyright Society
29 (1982): 647, at 658.