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There's no such thing, no law that allows one to place their work in the public domain! Yes, you can attach a copyright license that allows one to use your work
by bad_user 10y ago
There's no such thing, no law that allows one to place their work in the public domain! Yes, you can attach a copyright license that allows one to use your work for any purpose, but you still retain the copyright.
- dahart 10y agoYou can waive your copyrights in which case you do not retain them. You can also, as you say, assign a public domain license and retain copyrights, but that isn't considered "public domain" per se. 'Examples for works actively dedicated into public domain by their authors are reference implementations of cryptographic algorithms,[6][7][8] NIH's ImageJ,[9] and the CIA's The World Factbook.[10] The term is not normally applied to situations where the creator of a work retains residual rights, in which case use of the work is referred to as "under license" or "with permission".' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain
- grengineer 10y agoActually USA goverment works like the CIA World Factbook are public domain only inside USA. According to (S. REP. NO. 473, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. 56 (1976)) section 105 page 59 The prohibition on copyright protection for United States Government works is not intended to have any effect on protection of these works abroad. Works of the governments of most other countries are copyrighted. There are no valid policy reasons for denying such protection to United States Government works in foreign countries, or for precluding the Government from making licenses for the use of its works abroad.