For many restorations, e.g. that involve more than removing dots and
crinkles, CC-BY would be just as suitable. Reusers should indicate it is a
restoration, and record the provenance of the digital work they are making
use of.
On Jul 12, 2012 4:28 AM, "Ryan Kaldari" <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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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