[cc-community] Suggestion: Individual License

toddd at mypse.goracer.de toddd at mypse.goracer.de
Sat Sep 4 18:12:12 EDT 2004


> There is one other un-related query that I have: if something is
> dedicated to the public domain, as CC allows, can somebody then take it
> out of the public domain by copyrighting/patenting it?

You can not patent anything that already exists (prior art).
You can not copyright anything you did not create. But you can of course
relicense public domain material under your own license.







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