On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:27:56AM -0700, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Alphax wrote:
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As I read it (IANAL), you can't place your work into the public domain because:
Quoting yourself as an authority is a nice trick if you can get away with it.
Your statement that it is impossible to grant one's works into the public domain is patently false. Copyright is an intellectual property right, and it is fundamental to property rights that the owner have the right to dispose of his property in whatever manner he sees fit.
Copyright isn't a property right. The term "intellectual property" is a form of colloquial shorthand rather than a legal term indicating actual status as a form of "property". I don't know whether this affects one's ability (or inability) to pass something willfully into the public domain, but it does affect the relevance of your statement to the discussion at hand.
-- Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ]