This is the Public Domain is an art project designed to look at the difficulty in demarcating a piece of land as part of the international commons for perpetuity within the United States.
As a means of doing this, Balkin looked into a number of legal strategies within the constraints of property and copyright law.
Those working to create This is the Public Domain have attempted a number of legal strategies to achieve their goal.
[6] The first was attempting to copyright and then enter into the public domain the land within the project's boundaries as a conceptual artwork.
The upside to this from the artists' perspective is that the land would have strong legal protection, but they question whether corporate control is the proper way to achieve it.