Live in Arts and Science and in death promote them Public Domain Donor

Created by Jeremy Hunsinger (Virginia Tech) on February 27, 2008

Why let all of your ideas die with you? Current Copyright law prevents anyone from building upon your creativity for 70 years after your death. Live on in collaboration with others. Make an intellectual property donation. By donating your IP into the public domain you will "promote the progress of science and useful arts" (U.S. Constitution). Ensure that your creativity will live on after you are gone, make a donation today.

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this is brilliant.

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Submitted by buridan on Tue, 2008/09/02 - 11:02am.

well because GNU and Creative Commons are not free, they are still copyrighted an then licensed under the terms of that copyright. Donating to the public domain releases the copyright and makes it available to everyone. It is really the only way to have an infrastructure for the future. The other ways tend to lock things up in arbitrary legal arrangements.

brilliant, cute or perhaps misleading?

Submitted by hes8 on Sun, 2008/06/01 - 5:27pm.

It's a cute idea, but the text appears to me to be incomplete or even misleading.

What about using GNU or Creative Commons licenses? They do not put your IP into the public domain, but they can accomplish the same lofty goals mentioned - perhaps even more effectively.

I'd like my copyrighted IP to continue to have my name associated and to have it, if any continues to be used, to provide a memory of what I've contributed. In addition, if the work is licensed earlier than the death of the creator, it can do even more good.