On 8 July 2012 14:59, Adam Cuerden <[email protected]> wrote: > I live in the UK, so have a right to claim copyright on restorations, under > the Sweat of the brow doctrine. (indeed, I believe UK copyright law > technically doesn't actually allow me to release into the public domain as > such). I want my work to be widely used, but am concerned that a lot of it > was being used by unscrupulous poster companies to sell posters at vastly > inflated prices by using my work, and, as such, wanted to use minimal > possible protections, and CC-by is very much a minimum protection that still > allows all usages, just gets them to note that what they're using is, indeed > free to use and not done by them.
See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow#UK_copyright_law>, the doctrine of 'Sweat of the brow' is not recognized as a valid claim of copyright in the UK. Thanks, Fae _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
