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sp332
on May 12, 2010
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Distributed Facebook replacement Diaspora pledged ...
Not in all jurisdictions. In some places, you can never abjure all of your rights (or responsibilities) as owner of intellectual property.
_zhqs
on May 12, 2010
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I'm curious, in which jurisdictions are you not able to generate IP that you choose not to own?
eru
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Germany.
_zhqs
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so does this mean that nothing created in germany can be in the public domain in germany / europe?
sp332
on May 12, 2010
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Yes. You made it, you own it. (Until you explicitly transfer ownership to someone else.)
eru
on May 14, 2010
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And then you still retain the moral right, or something like that.
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