Everything you did not want to know about Unicode in Python 3

[Robert Kern]

On 2014-05-17 02:07, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2014 14:46:23 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> At least in the US, there doesn't seem to be such a thing as "placing a
>> work into the public domain".  The copyright holder can transfer
>> ownershipt to soembody else, but there is no "public domain" to which
>> ownership can be trasferred.
>
> That's factually incorrect. In the US, sufficiently old works, or works
> of a certain age that were not explicitly registered for copyright, are
> in the public domain. Under a wide range of circumstances, works created
> by the federal government go immediately into the public domain.

There is such a thing as the public domain in the US, and there are works in it, 
but there isn't really such a thing as "placing a work" there voluntarily, as 
Grant says. A work either is or isn't in the public domain. The author has no 
choice in the matter.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco