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Originally Posted by tompe
Aha, I see that I was unclear. I want or have to have copyright on my stuff (maybe a requirement from the work place) and I want people to take it and distribute it and in this act I want them to commit copyright infringement. I did not mean that I gave permission for them to download and distribute my stuff.
And this is not an unreasonable stance. Take software development at a company. If I do something really useful it would be very good if it is widely distributed but the company will probably force me to not allow this.
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I'm still not understanding what you are saying then. You can't have it both ways.
You can release things under something like a creative commons certainly, or release public domain, but by so doing you DO give up at least some rights to it. You have given permission for others to copy it or do whatever they want with it.
If you do not want that, i.e. if you want to retain your rights to it, then you can but you can't do both.
And this is (as I said in the beginning) a whole different discussion than what I'm arguing which is that
If you take something of mine without my permission you are a thief.