[License-discuss] Can copyrights be abandoned to the public domain?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Ben Tilly (btilly at gmail.com):

> Based on http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6225 and similar
> articles, I'd long believed that a declaration that you were
> abandoning copyright was a meaningless farce.
> 
> Then by accident today I ran across http://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html
> which claims the opposite, and cites actual court decisions as
> evidence.

His cites simply do not support his conclusion, by the way.  I dissect
that matter in passing on
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/public-domain.html .