The "we" that gets to do the undoing *today* is everyone that has a license to have a copy of your program. I used "us" expansively and assumed that most people are potentially in the set of people who could have a license to whatever software it was you were mentioning. The "us" and "we" of public domain is everyone, period. Of course, all of this is really from my context as a USian. Most-to-many people here aren't actually present in the US and their own legal requirements are probably entirely different.
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You mean, the same US that's extending the period before something gets into the public domain over and over again? Well, all software I've written is younger than Mickey Mouse, so I guess I'm safe.