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Yes, but then you as an author can choose to place your own performance in the public domain.

I thought that wasn't clearly established. I believe the assumption has been that you could call something public domain, and obviously people do so, but I don't believe it has been tested in court.

Not that I can see an obvious reason why it would be so tested, and frankly these are fuzzy memories from 15-20 years ago.

To what extent it is obvious just a simple statement that something is public domain would work depends on jurisdiction, which is why things like CC0 [1] exists.

[1] https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

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