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This could have the effect of "certifying" that the author intended to release the software into the public domain. It does not seem that registration is necessary to release the software into the public domain, because the law does not state that public-domain status is conferred by registration. Judicial rulings support this conclusion; see ...
The first of January ushers in a new year, a new month and new entries to the list of works in the public domain. While 2024 saw many popular intellectual properties lose copyright protection ...
Robert A. Baron argues in his essay "Making the Public Domain Public" that "because the public domain is not a legally sanctioned entity," a statement disclaiming a copyright or "granting" a work into the public domain has no legal effect whatsoever, and that the owner still retains all rights to the work not otherwise released. The owner would ...
Biography at Duke University School of Law; on YouTube; The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, 2008; RSA Vision webcast – James Boyle on "The Public Domain: enclosing the commons of the mind" Works by James Boyle at Project Gutenberg; Works by or about James Boyle at the Internet Archive
A group of Texas parents are banding together to push back on book bans in school districts across the state.. The Texas Freedom to Read Project, a coalition of parents from across the state ...
Examples of important literary works entering the public domain include Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, William Faulkner's Light in August, Samuel Becket's Dream of Fair to Middling Women, Guy Endore's The Werewolf of Paris, Graham Greene's Stamboul Train, Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon, Zelda Fitzgerald's Save Me the Waltz, John ...
There are multiple licenses which aim to release works into the public domain. In 2000 the WTFPL was released as a public domain like software license. [58] Creative Commons (created in 2002 by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred) has introduced several public-domain-like licenses, called Creative Commons licenses. These give authors ...
Tales from the Public Domain is a comic book about intellectual property law and the public domain published in 2008 by Duke University Press. [1] Written by Keith Aoki , James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins and supported by the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at the Duke Law School , the book was first released in a free digital edition ...