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[Brian Koontz <brian AT opennicproject.org>]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 10:48:06AM -0600, Quinn Wood wrote:
> On 01/02/2013 10:44 AM, Brian Koontz wrote:
> >There's no harm in doing so.  I think we can all agree it's rather
> >unenforceable ATM.  One could always argue that the creator of the
> >material in question holds the copyright (in fact, that's the way it
> >works in the US), so to say the content isn't copyrighted is false.
> >
> That's fine, but listing it as granted to a non-existent entity or a
> URL leaves it what's referred to as an orphan work. That's just as
> bad as not listing a notice.

The content is licensed by inclusion of the CC license.  There should
be no copyright notice posted, as it's redundant and could possibly be
construed just as you bring up.  OpenNIC doesn't want anyone's
copyright.  It's understood that the contributor retains copyright and
agrees to have their content publicly disseminated under the terms of
the license.

I really don't see what the issue is here, unless we're just arguing
for the sake of argument.

  --Brian

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