> > Regardless of whether the U.K. is a sweat-of-the-brow country or not, > there are certainly countries that are. In Taiwan, Spain, Sweden, Norway, > Denmark, Iceland, Finland, etc., Adam probably has a copyright on his > restorations whether he wants them or not. In these cases, is it better for > him to retain full copyright or apply a CC-BY-SA license? This is the exact > same situation I was in with the 2D Walters Museum uploads. Even though I > explicitly declared that the images were CC-BY-SA _only_ in > sweat-of-the-brow countries, the Commons community went ape-shit over the > Walters Museum committing "copyfraud" by not simply applying PD-Art. So > basically, the choice for an uploader is either be accused of copyfraud or > retain your full copyrights in sweat-of-the-brow countries (which may > include the U.K.). >
No, there is an alternative : one could use a CC-Zero to waive any rights he might have in some countries, and effectively releasing into the public domain. Thus no copyfraud. -- Jean-Frédéric
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