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Yes but there are still significant differences. E.g. Germany has no legal concept of dedicating work to the "public domain". Everything released as "public dom

by foepys 5y ago

Yes but there are still significant differences. E.g. Germany has no legal concept of dedicating work to the "public domain". Everything released as "public domain" today is effectively copyrighted. You can release your work under GPL, MIT, CC0, and so on but not as public domain.

freeflight 5y ago
> Germany has no legal concept of dedicating work to the "public domain". Maybe I'm misunderstanding your statement, but Germany very much has a legal concept like "public domain", that of Gemeinfreiheit [0] which also includes; "Werke, die vom Schöpfer in die Gemeinfreiheit entlassen wurden." What's the big difference to "public domain" I'm missing here? [0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeinfreiheit https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeinfreiheit
- andi999 5y ago
  From your link:"Nach deutschem und österreichischem Recht ist umstritten, ob ein Totalverzicht auf das Urheberrecht zugunsten der Allgemeinheit möglich ist. Die wohl herrschende Meinung schließt dies unter Berufung auf § 29 UrhG-D bzw. § 19 UrhG-Ö aus. Daher gibt es dort keine Gemeinfreiheit durch Rechteverzicht wie in den USA," So the current legal opinion is that you cannot 'give' your work to public domain. Minority opinion believes you can. So for your work to enter public domain, you just have to pass away and wait 70 years (or whatever the specific requirement was).
  - ttybird2 5y ago
    https://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html https://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html
    - pdonis 5y ago
      Abandoning your copyright to a work does not place it in the public domain. It just makes it abandoned property, which then becomes owned by the first person to take ownership of it (barring further complications in the applicable jurisdictions abandoned property laws, or pre-existing claims by others such as the former owner's heirs or assigns). http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/public-domain.html http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/public-domain.ht...

by foepys 5y ago

freeflight 5y ago

> Germany has no legal concept of dedicating work to the "public domain". Maybe I'm misunderstanding your statement, but Germany very much has a legal concept like "public domain", that of Gemeinfreiheit [0] which also includes; "Werke, die vom Schöpfer in die Gemeinfreiheit entlassen wurden." What's the big difference to "public domain" I'm missing here? [0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeinfreiheit https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeinfreiheit

andi999 5y ago
From your link:"Nach deutschem und österreichischem Recht ist umstritten, ob ein Totalverzicht auf das Urheberrecht zugunsten der Allgemeinheit möglich ist. Die wohl herrschende Meinung schließt dies unter Berufung auf § 29 UrhG-D bzw. § 19 UrhG-Ö aus. Daher gibt es dort keine Gemeinfreiheit durch Rechteverzicht wie in den USA," So the current legal opinion is that you cannot 'give' your work to public domain. Minority opinion believes you can. So for your work to enter public domain, you just have to pass away and wait 70 years (or whatever the specific requirement was).
- ttybird2 5y ago
  https://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html https://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html
  - pdonis 5y ago
    Abandoning your copyright to a work does not place it in the public domain. It just makes it abandoned property, which then becomes owned by the first person to take ownership of it (barring further complications in the applicable jurisdictions abandoned property laws, or pre-existing claims by others such as the former owner's heirs or assigns). http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/public-domain.html http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/public-domain.ht...