Intermezzo: a feature request for lawyers
I've been thinking about the following problem for a while, but free licensing on the brain prompts me to post here. I may copy [CHAT] later when I'm not pseudoliveblogging.
I have a bunch of material under copyleft licenses.
I'm mortal. I could be hit by a bus on Mass. Ave. tonight.
I'd like to lift the protections/encumbrances of those licenses as soon as possible when I die, because I think leaving that material encumbered for the next 70/95/infinity years is dumb. I'd like to re-release this material either under a simple attribution license (CC-BY, for example), or into the public domain.
Is there any sort of drop-in legal code I can use, either in my personal will or on my account user page, that can allow me to posthumously control how restricted my work is? Also, keep in mind that this work is mostly pseudonymous, and that it may not be possible to link the sudden cessation of activity from the account to my passing; I'd like to treat 20 years of inactivity as equivalent to death.
I have a bunch of material under copyleft licenses.
I'm mortal. I could be hit by a bus on Mass. Ave. tonight.
I'd like to lift the protections/encumbrances of those licenses as soon as possible when I die, because I think leaving that material encumbered for the next 70/95/infinity years is dumb. I'd like to re-release this material either under a simple attribution license (CC-BY, for example), or into the public domain.
Is there any sort of drop-in legal code I can use, either in my personal will or on my account user page, that can allow me to posthumously control how restricted my work is? Also, keep in mind that this work is mostly pseudonymous, and that it may not be possible to link the sudden cessation of activity from the account to my passing; I'd like to treat 20 years of inactivity as equivalent to death.