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Originally Posted by HarryT
The majority of things published by the US government are in the public domain, so seemingly it is be possible to do it.
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It's actually an extremely complicated question. A work can be declared public domain by statute, certainly; that's the case the US publications and the like. But there's no codified law about how to put something into the public domain; by common law standards one should be able to, but there's also the provision in the US law reassert one's rights on something that was previously put into public domain, which begs the question whether or not it was really in the public domain to begin with.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_...er_of_interest