On Fri, 16 May 2014 14:46:23 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > At least in the US, there doesn't seem to be such a thing as "placing a > work into the public domain". The copyright holder can transfer > ownershipt to soembody else, but there is no "public domain" to which > ownership can be trasferred.
That's factually incorrect. In the US, sufficiently old works, or works of a certain age that were not explicitly registered for copyright, are in the public domain. Under a wide range of circumstances, works created by the federal government go immediately into the public domain. It is true that under the Mickey Mouse Copyright Grab Act[1] of <insert years here>, every time Mickey Mouse is about to reach the end of copyright, Congress retroactively extends copyright terms for another few decades, but that's another story. [1] Not the real name of the act. -- Steven D'Aprano http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
