I Do Not Own/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

* I wonder if "I do not own" has a legal weight if that's my work licensed under copyzero license?

** The license does, these words don't. Basically, by default, as the copyright holder, you can do anything with your work and others can do nothing. To release your rights explicitly, put the work in the public domain (but be warned that not all legislations have the concept of public domain) or use a public-domain-equivalent license.

** This particular variant is actually used in professional works on occasion, such as video games (they'll typically have the copyright notice for each and every library or tool in the full credits, but everywhere else it's abbreviated). Besides, if the whole "placating acknowledgment that you have a copyright and then making this anyway" thing is a farce to begin with, does it matter?

 

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