[okfn-discuss] [pd-discuss] Happy Thanksgiving! Presidents and Turkeys...

Mr. Puneet Kishor punkish at eidesis.org
Mon Dec 5 15:44:47 UTC 2011



>>>> Public domain resources should either limit themselves to works that
>>>> are truly in the public domain everywhere or they should make clear
>>>> the geographical limitations on their assessment of public domain
>>>> status.


and therein lies the paradox... things can't "truly" be in the PD (whatever "truly" means) because "everywhere" other than the US don't necessarily recognize that there could be things that really have no IP rights reserved by anyone.

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Puneet Kishor







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