On Jul 13, 2013, at 10:07 PM, Aaron Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > If we're going to be picky about this, the phrase "If you put an authored > work into the public domain" is itself misleading as there is, at least in > the U.S., no legal mechanism to actually place your work in the public domain > (aside from dying and then waiting 70 years or working by contract for the > government). The closest thing is CC0, which indeed waives all rights
Definitely use CC0 as it is a well recognized, effective tool. But, I am not sure if one can't place one's work in the PD in the US. http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1107173.html > It is well settled that rights gained under the Copyright Act may be > abandoned. But abandonment of a right must be manifested by some overt act > indicating an intention to abandon that right. See Hampton v. Paramount > Pictures Corp., 279 F.2d 100, 104 (9th Cir.1960). For more discussion, see http://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html Also note that SQLite, a rather well used software since it is baked into just about every mobile operating system, into Mac OS X (coredb) and several kajillion other software packages, has been placed into the PD by its author. Whether or not that has been done legally may be debatable. It has certainly been done quite successfully. -- Puneet Kishor
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