An anti-copyright notice is a specific statement that is added to a work in order to encourage wide distribution.
Depending on jurisdiction, it is possible to denounce all claims to copyright in a work including moral rights in a written disclaimer.
[citation needed] An example of a copyright waiver is the following: The author of this work hereby waives all claim of copyright (economic and moral) in this work and immediately places it in the public domain; it may be used, distorted or destroyed in any manner whatsoever without further attribution or notice to the creator.The Creative Commons CC0 was created for compatibility with also law domains (e.g. civil law of continental Europe) which have problems with the concept of dedicating into public domain, as waiver statement with a fallback all-permissive license.
[5] Most people[citation needed] would regard "anti-copyright" notices as being equivalent to a dedication of material into the public domain (as in the second example above).
For example, if just free distribution is encouraged, modification or lack of attribution is still illegal, making the material ineligible for collaborative writing projects like English Wikipedia.