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This is obviously a myth. If somebody mails a DVD of "Godzilla vs King Kong" to a government employee, it doesn't place the movie into the public domain.
by freeopinion 6y ago
This is obviously a myth. If somebody mails a DVD of "Godzilla vs King Kong" to a government employee, it doesn't place the movie into the public domain.
- Taniwha 6y agoNot a myth, in Sweden at the time it was the law, Scientology's "all your problems are caused because you are haunted by murdered space aliens" secret was put in the public domain this way
- gowld 6y agoNot public domain, but 1 copy available for reference like in a library.
- freeopinion 6y agoThat is an interesting take. If somebody robbed a bank and gave the money to the state, the state would obviously need to return it to its rightful owner. But copyright is not so straight forward. The church could contest that the physical copy belonged to them and was on loan. Thus it could not be gifted legally. The church could claim that the physical document was licensed non-transferably. They could claim that the copy itself was against copyright. There could be lots of arguments they could make to suppress the document. But none seem so straight forward as the bank robbery example.
- 3np 6y agoActually in general, you can ask for a copy of any document, for a somewhat reasonable copying/handling fee, and have it sent to you. If somebody’s hogging the book all day it can’t be copied as much, though...
- 3np 6y agoYou’re just armchair guessing based on your hunch and this time you were wrong. It is not a myth. That doesn’t mean sending a DVD to a government employee puts the movie in the public domain. It’s more nuanced than that.