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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