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Perl-Users Digest, Issue: 3548 Volume: 11
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Mon Nov 21 03:09:20 2011
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:09:02 -0800 (PST)
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Perl-Users Digest Mon, 21 Nov 2011 Volume: 11 Number: 3548
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Re: Generating an anonymous reference to an OO method <agquarx@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:23:00 +0100
From: Miranda McKennitt <agquarx@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Generating an anonymous reference to an OO method
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On 2011-07-31 23:18:59 +0200, Jürgen Exner <jurgenex@hotmail.com> said:
> Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@mail.com> wrote:
>> Absent any statement to the contrary, you should assume that a text is
>> still under copyright.
>
> Actually copyright is a natural law, i.e. a work of art/science/...
> automatically becomes copyrighted the moment it is created and even the
> author/artist/creator cannot waive this right. At most he can transfer
> the rights to another party.
> This copyright expires after 75(?) years. Therefore, unless this piece
> of art/science/literature/... is more than 75 years old, someone is
> still holding the copyright, maybe the author, maybe some publisher,
> maybe someone else.
>
> And yes, this even goes for freeware. There the author is the legal
> copyright holder, but he allows free use of the code. If he weren't the
> copyright holder then he would have no legal right to allow any use.
So, can I waive the copyright somehow? I have #copyleft in my Twitter
bio and wrote several times that everyone can take my words and even
attribute them to themselves if that is their fancy. Or is it
impossible to escape the evil thing?
>
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