I don't see a problem. If you put your work out in public without taking proper steps to safeguard your rights, it's public.
Take John Walker, for instance. He invented matches. Thinking that the public would be better off if he didn't patent his work, he allowed people to copy him. So, anyone could make a match.
If you take a picture and don't put your name on it, then put it out in public, there is not reason that other people shouldn't be able to use it.
It's the same way in the US. If I do a Google image search for an image of a sunset to put into my document, I can use pretty much whatever I find, as it is in the public domain. I only get in trouble if it's specifically marked.
Once again, IP laws fail
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Once again, IP laws fail
by eric » Mon Apr 29, 2013 6:13 pm
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
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Re: Once again, IP laws fail
by PoS » Tue Apr 30, 2013 8:12 am
In related news I love it now that Kim Dotcom's mega site is up and running.
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Re: Once again, IP laws fail
by eric » Tue Apr 30, 2013 8:44 am
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
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Re: Once again, IP laws fail
by eric » Tue Apr 30, 2013 11:57 am
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
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Re: Once again, IP laws fail
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