Re: A Little Linguistic Playground

On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Joseph P. Riolo <riolo[_at_]voicenet.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Thomas Workman <tworkman[_at_]erols.com> wrote:
> >
> > Folks are missing the point. The law does not permit a copyright to be
> > "vacated" or revoked. There is no statutory provision for doing so.
>
> That is not what the law says. Nowhere in the law says that I cannot
> put my work in the public domain.

The Copyright Office seems to recognize a legal step of placing a work in the public domain. See 37 CFR 201.26 Recordation of Documents Pertaining to Computer Shareware and Donation of Public Domain Computer Software

It reads in part: "In order to donate public domain software, the following conditions must be met: (i) The copy of the public domain software must contain an explicit disclaimer of copyright protection from the copyright owner."

Laurel

                         Laurel Jamtgaard, Esq.
                         Fenwick & West LLP
                         (650) 858-7993
                         <ljamtgaard[_at_]fenwick.com>

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