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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
No. You cannot publish new works as Public Domain.
Copyright, since the Berne Convention, is automatic + "very sticky".
Closest you can get is releasing under a very permissive Creative Commons license, like CC BY 4.0.
And Gutenberg only accepts Public Domain works.
See their "Public Domain Ebook Submission" page: |
CC has no independent existence. It relies purely on copyright law in each country.
Berne Convention is fragmented due to USA and lobbying from Corps like Disney and Google.
The USA has different laws to many other places. The USA is actually attempting to insist copyright holders must register.
Legal citation for claiming the owner of copyright (which IS automatic in most countries without any registration) can't give up the rights?
No-one needs any variation of CC, even CC-0. It has no independent existence, depending purely on local copyright laws.