Re: Copyright Contradiction in libalias

[Andrey A. Chernov]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:23:58 +1000, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
> 
> Once it's in the Public Domain you have abandoned your claim to copyright.
> That is the point of the Public Domain. If you still wish to retain the
> copyright and the associated rights you cannot release it into the Public 
> Domain.

No. Copyright consist in two parts. First one is "who is the author".
Second one is "what is usage/modification/publishing/etc.  permissions".
If you create some work, you are an author and no act including your owns
can deattach author rights from you. And if you put it in Public Domain
you, as author, grant anybody do anything with it.
> 
> The Public Domain is not a license, it is an abandonment of copyright.

No, "author" part of copyright can't be deattached, unless fraud happens.

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Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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