The different between GPL and non-license

[John Cowan]

Rod Dixon wrote:

> The copyright owner does not have a *choice*
> as to whether to put/transfer/cede a work to the public domain.

However, the U.S. Copyright office accepts and registers affidavits
by the author of a work that the author has abandoned copyright.
That suggests that the defense of abandonment is still possible.

See http://www.cni.org/Hforums/cni-copyright/1994-01/0204.html ,
by Mary Brandt Jensen (professor at the U. of S. Dak. School of Law).

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