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" <rkald...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > >
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