Re: Dedication to the public domain

Bruce Hayden suggested that one could formally dedicate a work to the public domain by filing an affidavit with the copyright office. While that might do the trick, it is not really a practical suggestion for the many (short) messages that one may author (like this one) for the Internet. There has to be a simpler way. And it seems to me that the release, even if it does not constitute formal abandonment, achieves the same result.

Bob

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Received on Tue Feb 22 1994 - 23:10:20 GMT