discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[lisarein AT finetuning.com]

Hi Nathan,

When any work is created, it is automatically copyrighted.  That's why 
there is a copyright holder (with a name) and a copyright date.

Just to be clear:  nothing is going on outside the scope of copyright 
-- A copyright holder of a work must explicitly give up his copyright 
in order to place something in the public domain.

For these reasons, this information is necessary in order to dedicate 
something into the Public Domain.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Lisa Rein
lisa AT creativecommons.org

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 02:19 PM, Nathan Sharfi wrote:

> 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
>
>
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