On 8 July 2012 15:46, Adam Cuerden cuerden@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I suppose I should thank you for letting me know before you downloaded my works. All my things are now not available for download in their full-size versions, until this is sorted. (and have told people exactly why: http://adamcuerden.deviantart.com/art/Oscar-Wilde-s-The-Duchess-of-Padua-res... ) If, at some point in the future, you decide people actually deserve credit for their work, do let me know.
Credit as a requirement of a copyright licence only applies when a copyright in fact exists. Restorations intended to be fidelitous do not create a new copyright in US law. They may or may not create one in UK law, but the question is unlikely to be resolved without an actual case - shouting at people on a mailing list is unlikely to influence the situation one way or the other.
What you really want is credit, and it is true that reusers should credit the restorer in order to properly note the provenance of an image. But you can't enforce that with a copyright that doesn't exist.
- d.