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"Releasing to the public domain" isn't something that can affirmatively be done. The best you can do, which Smithsonian did, is CCO https://creativecommons.org
by gowld 7y ago
"Releasing to the public domain" isn't something that can affirmatively be done. The best you can do, which Smithsonian did, is CCO
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Thanks to Creative Commons team for teaching the government how to do its job .
- chipsa 7y agoUnless you're the US government, in which case everything is public domain. A copyright cannot be claimed on USG work product.
- zozbot234 7y agoAssuming that you actually control the copyright, of course. This used to be (and may still be) a significant issue wrt. the Smithsonian itself; they host all sorts of content on their websites for which the actual copyright-ownership situation was apparently entirely unknown (to the Smithsonian themselves and anyone else).