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You probably mean "Creative Commons", not GPL. GPL is for code. But in either case, both CC and GPL are based on copyright, therefore cannot use.

by aritmo 7y ago

weinzierl 7y ago
CC-SA (share-alike) would be in the same spirit and more suitable for artwork I guess, but I'm not very familiar with it. Why can't he use copyright? I didn't quite follow this line of thinking in the original article as well. As far as I understand it copyright per se is automatic (nowadays), so you don't have to file for it. So this doesn't prevent him from staying anonymous. Tradmarks on the other hand have to be registered. How does he hide his anonymity in this case? Now enforcing his rights is a completely different matter. He certainly can't hide his name from the courts then and it might even become public. But in this case there is no difference between a copyright lawsuit and a trademark lawsuit.
- cookie_monsta 7y ago
  The way that I understand it, a trademark can be registered to a CPL (UK equivalent to an LLC) but copyright, if registered, has to go to a person. Although I believe that some states in the US allow anonymous copyright via LLC. I am far from being a lawyer, but this makes sense to me - a trademark is designed to be associated with a brand, copyright is designed to designate a person/group as something's creator.
  - arrrg 7y ago
    But I thought you don’t have to register copyright? I thought you just had it automatically as soon as you make something?
    - em-bee 7y ago
      it's not registering copyright that is the problem, but claiming a copyright violation that requires revealing of his identity, because in order to make the claim you have to prove that you have legal standing to do so.
kabacha 7y ago
> GPL is for code. Citation needed. GPL can work for anything.
- abdullahkhalids 7y ago
  There are only recommendations, nothing is forced. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOtherThanSoftware https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOtherThanSoftwa... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Text_and_other_media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Tex...
- duskwuff 7y ago
  The text of the GPL describes the subject of the license as a "Program" and refers to it as having "machine-readable source code" (or "Corresponding Source" in GPLv3) and an "object code or executable form". It's difficult to interpret what any of this would mean in the context of an artistic work.

You probably mean "Creative Commons", not GPL. GPL is for code. But in either case, both CC and GPL are based on copyright, therefore cannot use.

by aritmo 7y ago

You probably mean "Creative Commons", not GPL. GPL is for code. But in either case, both CC and GPL are based on copyright, therefore cannot use.

weinzierl 7y ago

CC-SA (share-alike) would be in the same spirit and more suitable for artwork I guess, but I'm not very familiar with it. Why can't he use copyright? I didn't quite follow this line of thinking in the original article as well. As far as I understand it copyright per se is automatic (nowadays), so you don't have to file for it. So this doesn't prevent him from staying anonymous. Tradmarks on the other hand have to be registered. How does he hide his anonymity in this case? Now enforcing his rights is a completely different matter. He certainly can't hide his name from the courts then and it might even become public. But in this case there is no difference between a copyright lawsuit and a trademark lawsuit.

cookie_monsta 7y ago
The way that I understand it, a trademark can be registered to a CPL (UK equivalent to an LLC) but copyright, if registered, has to go to a person. Although I believe that some states in the US allow anonymous copyright via LLC. I am far from being a lawyer, but this makes sense to me - a trademark is designed to be associated with a brand, copyright is designed to designate a person/group as something's creator.
- arrrg 7y ago
  But I thought you don’t have to register copyright? I thought you just had it automatically as soon as you make something?
  - em-bee 7y ago
    it's not registering copyright that is the problem, but claiming a copyright violation that requires revealing of his identity, because in order to make the claim you have to prove that you have legal standing to do so.

kabacha 7y ago

> GPL is for code. Citation needed. GPL can work for anything.

abdullahkhalids 7y ago
There are only recommendations, nothing is forced. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOtherThanSoftware https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOtherThanSoftwa... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Text_and_other_media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Tex...
duskwuff 7y ago
The text of the GPL describes the subject of the license as a "Program" and refers to it as having "machine-readable source code" (or "Corresponding Source" in GPLv3) and an "object code or executable form". It's difficult to interpret what any of this would mean in the context of an artistic work.