Re: [tlug] linux in Japanese schools

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> Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 16:23:27 +0900 (JST)
> From: Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>
> Subject: Re: [tlug] linux in Japanese schools
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Sorry for the repeat.  Clumbsy fingers.

 
> > Also, I think GPL is a very good way to resist the computer
> > Alpop-culture that an Kay refers to in his interviews.
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> Though I know Kay, I don't know what 'Alpop' culture is.

That would be  your email client.  It showed up as pop in my mail viewer, not alpop. ^^;


>From: Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion@example.com>
>The public domain is yet another thing. In public domain there is no  
>copyright per definition. Plus it is extremely difficult to actually  
>_put_ something in the public domain since _any_ intellectual work is  
>considered to automatically generate copyright. 

In order for a work to go to public domain, the copy right holder must put it there.  


>Although  
>that needs to be tested in courts, it would be technically possible  
>to put a new copyright on a public domain work (partial or total)  
>since nobody protects the non-existing original copyright. 

Public domain material isn't copyrightable, I do not think.  A derivative work would be though.