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

[John Cowan]

Chris Travers scripsit:

> I don't see how copyright can be enforced when it is both explicitly
> disclaimed and the link with the author is severed.  There would be no
> way to enforce it, nobody to go after for implicit warranties, etc.

You could claim that it was illicitly published without your consent.

-- 
John Cowan  <cowan at ccil.org>  http://ccil.org/~cowan
Micropayment advocates mistakenly believe that efficient allocation of
resources is the purpose of markets.  Efficiency is a byproduct of market
systems, not their goal.  The reasons markets work are not because users
have embraced efficiency but because markets are the best place to allow
users to maximize their preferences, and very often their preferences are
not for conservation of cheap resources.  --Clay Shirky