The thing I can't understand about this whole "decopyright" conversation is why anyone would want to do it. It seems to me that by abandoning your copyright you would enable others to repackage and sell the very expression you intended to be freely available. The Microstar v. Formgen case comes to mind. A better approach, as others have mentioned, might be to license your work to the public for clearly defined noncommercial uses. But it's unclear to me whether you can have privity with the public at large in the absence of some kind of clickwrap agreement.
Jason Vogel
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Received on Wed Mar 24 1999 - 06:06:50 GMT
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