Public Domain Monster
Let’s try something! I made the above image and the intellectual property it represents: a weird turtle-monster thing. I, Evan Dahm, am putting this particular image and this monster thing into the PUBLIC DOMAIN. YOU are free to use it, copy it, claim it as your own, rework it, or do whatever you like with it. I encourage you to do so. I relinquish my ownership of this little turtle monster; it is the internet’s now.
I figure most IP that gets put online gets treated mostly as if it’s in the public domain anyhow, so I am putting this out there in that position explicitly just to see what happens.
More of these to come maybe?
Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works
wired.comCongress may take books, musical compositions and other works out of the public domain, where they can be freely used and adapted, and grant them copyright status again, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
In a 6-2 ruling, the court ruled that just because material enters the public domain, it is not “territory that works may never exit.”
The top court was ruling on a petition by a group of orchestra conductors, educators, performers, publishers and film archivists who urged the justices to reverse an appellate court that ruled against the group, which has relied on artistic works in the public domain for their livelihoods.
They claimed that re-copyrighting public works would breach the speech rights of those who are now using those works without needing a license. There are millions of decades-old works at issue. Some of the well-known ones include H.G. Wells’ Things to Come; Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and the musical compositions of Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky.
» via Wired
