discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

["Nathan Sharfi" <nisharfi AT tstonramp.com>]

I'm filling in metadata about "Squiggle", my one-off SVG drawing that I'm 
dedicating
to the public domain. However, it insists on a valid copyright date, and I'm 
not
exactly sure *why*, considering that I thought that placing something in the 
public
domain means that it's outside the scope of copyright.

Likewise, the mandatory "copyright holder's name" field is similarly puzzling.

Cheers,
 Nathan