@benpate oh yeah, i didn’t mean to get too pedantic and i hope it didn’t come off that way, i just was a bit confused by responses that seemed to think that would be particularly burdensome.

honestly i think the cc folks could try to communicate things better. i often see takes around cc (and especially cc0) that have me rather concerned folks are making decisions about their hard-earned work that they don’t fully grasp…

@benpate the ‘cc is free’ model seems very fitting for the fediverse, and i’m not sure why people think it would complicate things.

as keef pointed out, cc is a license; it does not ‘undo’ copyright. it’s already an ‘honor system’ of sorts where anyone uploading now needs to be honest about either being the rights-holder or that the piece in question is permissively licensed such that they can upload it. ‘all rights reserved’ doesn’t fundamentally change this.