Copyright abandonment has to be explicit, you can't just say a copyright on something was abandoned by the creator because they did not do something. They have to explicitly do something (such as, but not limited to placing the creation in the public domain).
> Sorry, you seem to be going off the rails here and with "baked-beans on a wall", and I have no interest in following; my interest in the topic has waned.
Would it be possible for you to - whether you're wrong or right doesn't enter into it - at least be civil?
There was absolutely nothing uncivil in any comment on this thread. The rhetoric was fact-based and direct appropriate to the topic.
For the record, there is nothing civil about your pretense of offering false opinion as fact in nearly every frontage discussion topic bordering on "law" on HN.
You are just wrong more often than you are right. Sorry if pointing that out is uncivil but it a disservice to the community. Even if you use a downvote brigade to cover your mistakes, you should be responsible for dispensing "opinionated" advice about legal issues.
> Sorry, you seem to be going off the rails here and with "baked-beans on a wall", and I have no interest in following; my interest in the topic has waned.
Would it be possible for you to - whether you're wrong or right doesn't enter into it - at least be civil?