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Re: Public Domain



> A new term such as "decopyright" could be interpreted as abandoning
> copyright on the work entirely.  In some countries, this can not be done,
> because the rights are invested in the author no matter what.  

Are you saying that in some countries the author cannot assign copyright
to someone else?  That strikes me as a pretty stringent limitation on
authors' rights...

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