On 7/11/12 8:49 AM, Jean-Frédéric wrote:
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.
Yes, I certainly agree that is the ideal, and it is the solution that we
ultimately arrived at for the Walters Museum (after much back and forth
that probably cost us some goodwill from the museum). Still though,
perhaps we should have some sort of solution for people that want to
enact sweat-of-the-brow licenses, at least until sweat-of-the-brow
finally dies out. While we may find it morally repugnant to acknowledge
such laws, they do exist, and they do affect reusers. On the other hand,
our licensing templates are already quite confusing to many people, and
if reusers can't easily decipher them, they will probably end up just
ignoring them.
Ryan Kaldari
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