Does the public domain exist?
Posted Mar 24, 2009 9:28 UTC (Tue) by
epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to:
Creative Commons weighs in on proposed OpenStreetMap license by PO8
Parent article:
Creative Commons weighs in on proposed OpenStreetMap license
See DJB's analysis of whether it is possible to waive copyright and, so doing, release a work into the public domain.
It's true that in some jurisdictions there are rights that cannot be waived, even if you want to, and that's why the Creative Commons CC0 licence exists.
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