On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org > wrote:
> Oddly, you as an individual in the US can't *put* a work into the public > domain, but you can make a quit claim that forswears defense of any of the > exclusive rights of you, the copyright holder. That does not in any way > remove the copyright that the work was born having, however. > Wow. Just did some research on this and Dennis (not surprisingly) appears to be right. Yay for the Creative Commons licenses in this case. The CC0 license looks very useful. > But either way, one cannot assert any kind of property right over a work > that is not yours (or of someone providing work for hire to you), whether > public domain or not. > Perhaps true in a literal sense. Nearly trivial (nearly!) derivative works can be claimed with no attribution, I think if a license like the CC0 has been applied. The issue of moral rights, especially in Europe, seems sticky.
