While it's true that there is currently no mechanism for placing something in the public domain(*), you can get a very similar effect by attaching the CC-BY license to it:
Creative Commons with Attribution
Meaning anybody is free to do anything they want with it, as long as they say they got it from you.
(*) Before 1978, you could publish the work without a copyright notice. Or you could place a specific declaration: "copyright abandoned" on the work. Now it appears that the courts will not (necessarily) recognize even an explicit declaration of abandonment.
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creative commons
Creative Commons with Attribution
Meaning anybody is free to do anything they want with it, as long as they say they got it from you.
(*) Before 1978, you could publish the work without a copyright notice. Or you could place a specific declaration: "copyright abandoned" on the work. Now it appears that the courts will not (necessarily) recognize even an explicit declaration of abandonment.
Techdirt has not posted any stories submitted by Barry Gold.
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