[WikiEN-l] Re: Copyright violation

Sun Nov 16 20:22:53 UTC 2003

Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Axel Boldt wrote:
> 
>> Ironically, the bulk of [[Chess strategy and tactics]] was written by 
>> me and is therefore in the public domain.
> 
> Who defends the public domain?

Material that's in the public domain remains in the public domain 
forever. Nobody can attack it and nobody can defend it. You can slap a 
bogus copyright notice on a public domain work, but that does not change 
its public domain status.

Axel