On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Joseph P. Riolo <riolo[_at_]voicenet.com> wrote:
>
> I am playing/toying with a new word.
>
> If one desires to put his/her work in the public domain, he has to write
> a statement to effectuate it such as "I put this essay in the public
> domain". This is fine for most people but the term "public domain" is
> not intuitive because it does not resemble the term "copyright" in any
> way. Therefore, I propose a new word called "decopyright". It means to
> deprive a work of the copyright.
>
> I do not have immediate access to the unabridged Webster's Dictionary
> and Oxford English Dictionary. Those who do may want to do us a favor
> by looking them up for the word "decopyright".
>
> I did a brief search at http://www.dejanews.com/ and found that there
> was a post using the word "decopyright". http://www.nlsearch.com/ and
> http://www.altavista.digital.com/ also yielded several results but all
> of them are in French and German languages. I do not know what
> "decopyright" would mean in these languages.
>
> Well, what do you think?
It might be more interesting than checking web search engines to check DialIndex in the Dialog Search Service for use of the term in full text newspapers, periodicals and the abstracts of bibliographic databases. This would determine if the press, journalists or scholarly publications have emlployed the concept. Lexis-Nexis might be a good second place to look.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne[_at_]astro.temple.edu
Received on Fri Mar 26 1999 - 12:07:12 GMT
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