Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Greg London" <email AT greglondon.com>]

I seem to remember reading back in teh day of share ware
and free ware that putting "this code is public domain"
was not enough to make it public domain.

unless that's changed, then the PD dedication is a license
that licenses away all rights to everyone, while true public domain
means you no rights to license because the copyright term
has expired.

functionally the work is treated teh same.

But my understand is with a PD dedication, the term
is still in effect, it's just that the rights have
been licensed away.

I suppose the case that will prove it one way or another
is if Congress retroactively adds moral rights to all
works currently under active copyright terms. Could
someone sue to assert their moral rights after they
licensed away their other rights?

Until then, it is all hair-splitting.

the law might have changed since the days of free ware
and share ware warnings against saying "this code is
public domain" though.

So, I'm willing to learn something new, if that's the case.

Greg London said:
>
> Mike Linksvayer said:
>> Greg London wrote:
>>> technically, no computer code has become public domain yet.
>>> Some programmers release their code under a license that
>>> gives away 99.9% of the rights (BSD license, etc).
>>> But the only way for something to be truly "public domain"
>>> is for the copyright term to expire. (or if the code was written
>>> before the 70's to have been published without registration or
>>> a copyright notice. Now, copyright is automatic and impossible
>>> to switch off.
>>
>> Impossible?  CC provides a mechanism
>> http://creativecommons.org/license/publicdomain for you to do it.
>>
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