Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Dedicating a work to the public domain

This is a record of a Public Domain Dedication.

On December 20, 2006, Kareeza Viloria dedicated to the public domain
the Work Tokyo Memoir. Before making the dedication, Kareeza Viloria
represented that Kareeza Viloria owned all copyrights in the
Work. By making the dedication, Kareeza Viloria made an overt act
of relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights under
copyright law, whether vested or contingent, in Tokyo Memoir.

Kareeza Viloria understands that such relinquishment of all rights
includes the relinquishment of all rights to enforce (by lawsuit or
otherwise) those copyrights in the Work.

Kareeza Viloria recognizes that, once placed in the public domain,
Tokyo Memoir may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted,
used, modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any
purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including by
methods that have not yet been invented or conceived.

For more information, please see
creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain.

Why would anyone like Kareeza Viloria donate her Work to the public domain? Perhaps to be loved in a special way, to live forever in the hearts of scholars. People like her cannot help but tell, report every bliss and anguish with love, just like every singer will grab every opportunity to express the beauty of her or his soul in poetry and music with all reverence and honesty.

A digital copy of the Work was emailed to Ms. Mary Mark Ockerbloom, editor and project leader of A CELEBRATION OF WOMEN WRITERS at the University of Pennsylvania Library in US, to be published only upon the death of Kareeza Viloria.

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