Leigh wrote: << As far as I know PD was not ported to NZ, or Australia, or Canada. The equivalent might be "Property of the Crown" but the Common Wealth of the Crown has been eroded some. >>
I'm admittedly not a lawyer, but my understanding is that doesn't have to be ported. A public domain dedication isn't a license that's inherently backed up by copyright; it's an author's permanent relinquishment of automatic state entitlement to monopoly on that work. While the public domain itself is recognised in all common law countries, whether one can dedicate one's own work to it without government permission is a little bit of a gray area. Creative Commons supports a public domain dedication process, however, which they seem to think holds weight at least within the U.S.: http://creativecommons.org/license/publicdomain-2 Perhaps for those working in tyrannical jurisdictions that don't allow authors to do this there's room for a CC-like license that explicitly doesn't reserve any rights at all. Piratbyrån has the kernel of this with their kopimi logo: http://www.kopimi.se/kopimi/ -=Steve=- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
