On 8 July 2012 14:59, Adam Cuerden <cuerden(a)gmail.com> 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