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laws are funny like that (Score:2)

by jhi (318)

It's not just Germany: the concept of "public domain" is really a feature of U.S. copyright law. Similar things exist in other jurisdictions, but not quite the same.
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  by Aristotle (5147) <pagaltzis@gmx.de> on 2007.04.28 12:04 (#54725) Homepage Journal
  
  I know. The best option if you want to do something like that is to put things under MIT licence, which works the same way in pretty well every jurisdiction.
  
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