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Ray Saintonge wrote:
Delirium wrote:
Stirling Newberry wrote:
My point was that Mark does not understand the
language of
debate, his clear poisoning the well attack here is an excellent
example of it.
Since I have not been participating in this thread, I'm not sure to
what you mean to refer. Your previous argument in this thread was
with Ray Saintonge, not with me.
Fantastic! ... and I thought I was arguing with Jean-Baptiste
Soufron. I suppose if I worked hard at it I could make a distinction
between "explicitly" and "specifically", but the former may indeed
be
a superior choice.
The question that set us off in this direction was whether someone
had the right to put his work into the public domain. I maintain
that he does. To put this in terms of the distinction between "malum
prohibitum" and "malum in se" is absurd in the absence of a
"malum"
of any kind in such an act. Is Stirling proposing that someone
should be fined for putting his writings in the public domain?
Ec
Since I seem to kill every thread I post to, I'll end this one.
I used {{MultiLicenseMinorPD}} until about 2 days ago, when I say the
following on it's talk page:
Because it's actually legally impossible to grant
one's own works
into the public domain in the U.S. and U.K., and this creates serious
potential legal problems, I will deprecate this tag if there is no
dissent for 4 days. Please see [[Wikipedia:You can't grant your work
into the public domain]] for a full explanation along with some
authoritative sources, including the U.S. Copyright Office. I have
created the tags {{TextLicenseMinorFreeUse}}, which reflects the
intent of this template. [[User:Dcoetzee|Deco]] 03:34, 8 Apr 2005
(UTC)
As I read it (IANAL), you can't place your work into the public domain
because:
Any work receives copyright by default and copyright
law generally
doesn't provide any special means to "abandon" copyright so that a
work can enter the public domain
and
Some claim that under many jurisdictions, a statement
absolving a
copyright or "granting" a work into the public domain has no legal
effect whatsoever, and that the owner still retains all rights to the
work not otherwise released. This person would then have the legal
right to prosecute people who use the work under the false impression
that it was in the public domain. It is certainly true that under
some jurisdictions, it is impossible to release moral rights, though
that is not the case in the United States.
(From [[Wikipedia:Granting work into the public domain]] and [[Public
domain]])
*However*, you /can/ release things under a free-for-any-use licence,
like {{CopyrightedFreeUse}}, {{NoRightsReserved}}, {{cc-sa}}, etc.
(Hopes flame war will end now)
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