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No. There are certain rights to a work you cannot waive, no matter how much you want to. Even less without actually specifying what "anything" entails.
by germanier 5y ago
No. There are certain rights to a work you cannot waive, no matter how much you want to. Even less without actually specifying what "anything" entails.
- 3np 5y agoWhile you can not waive certain rights, you absolutely can proclaim "you can do anything with this". You can choose to not exercise your legal right to attribution, for example. So what you’re saying is not in conflict with the person you’re replying to. (You can argue that there’s some legal risk at hand here; for example, if someone writes a book with the above and you start selling copies of it claiming you wrote it, the author can still come back and demand that you credit them as author and have that right enforced in court) I think this is great. Case in point: blanket EULA for an image sharing site can not remove your right to be attributed, should your photo end up in an ad campaign or a newspaper. This means that many European newspapers actually make sure to not misattribute photographs, which has the side-effect of improving transparency in news reporting. So grabbing a photo online and wrongfully claiming it’s from the wrong time, place and source is not something that tends to happen in practice. And if it does, there’s a clear path to recourse that doesn’t require "lawyering up", you just file a claim with evidence.