@Shark I have never referred to anything such corporate propaganda term - I always refer to the correct law - whether that's copyright law, patent law, trademark law or trade secret laws etc.

Copyright is not an optional thing - the government puts it automatically on every single creative work you publish and there currently is no globally valid way to opt out that doesn't has numerous issues.

There is CC0, but it repeats corporate propaganda terms and is not suitable for all works, as it expressively refuses to grant any patent license (so you cannot use CC0 software and be confident that someone isn't going to attack you with a patent).

The best attempt I've seen so far is this dedication, which isn't done yet; https://wpdd.info/


But even if you can find a way to validly surrender your copyright, the problem is that businesses and people then have the power to restrict your works with copyright and can and will do so.

As a result, the only logical course of action is to select a free license that allows for all legitimate cases of distribution, modifications and sale of copies, while not granting the power to restrict your works.

If businesses and people were to no longer so relentlessly make free things proprietary and gravitated towards respecting people's freedom instead, there would be no problem with dedicating everything to the public domain under a released version of the WPDD.