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Originally Posted by Pierre Lawrence
By hoops I meant the hassle of setting up an account, which in this case would entail providing banking and tax information [...]
Hard to believe that you have not had a single sale on Google Play, which confirms my judgment that listing on it is not worth the hassle I referred to above.
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Personally, I'd test the waters in Google Play with a few books... MAYBE.
Although Google Play has been shedding the non-apps sections like crazy:
I wouldn't be surprised if within the next year or two, Google puts ebooks on the chopping block too.
Similar situation happened with Microsoft's book store in:
where Microsoft tried to push all this "unified store" garbage along with their apps/programs/everything else into Windows 10/11, but nobody was going for it.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
CC has no independent existence. It relies purely on copyright law in each country.
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Yes, and nearly all countries of the world have signed the Berne Convention.
CC4.0 expanded upon CC3.0, applying to even more countries + covering even more edge-cases.
Read more about the differences here:
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A more global license
In the past six years, Creative Commons has worked with hundreds of volunteers around the world – literally, some of the best minds in copyright law and open licensing on the planet – to translate and adapt the 3.0 and earlier licenses to local laws in over 60 jurisdictions (what we call “porting”). In the process, we’ve learned a lot about how our licenses work internationally and how they’re impacted by the nuances of copyright law in various jurisdictions.
We drew on this experience in the process of developing 4.0. We’ve worked closely with our wide international network of affiliates and countless other experts and stakeholders to make 4.0 the most internationally enforceable set of CC licenses to date.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
Berne Convention is fragmented due to USA and lobbying from Corps like Disney and Google.
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No disagreement here. I'm no fan of copyright + the (rotten) Berne Convention.
But, since ~1989, nearly all governments of the world,
forcefully apply copyright automatically whether you like it or not. They do not allow you to relinquish it or "release things to the Public Domain", hence why I described copyright as "very sticky".
The closest you can get to relinquishing your copyright is by using an extremely permissive license (like CC BY 4.0).
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Originally Posted by Quoth
Legal citation for claiming the owner of copyright (which IS automatic in most countries without any registration) can't give up the rights?
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You can read about more details here:
You can hear more common misconceptions about copyright here:
or read all about the debates if:
- CC0 (Creative Commons 0)
- or "Public Domain Dedications"
would even be legally enforceable.
(There are many arguments [and problems] saying no.)
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Side Note: On real-life complications with copyright, see the
14+ years of Techdirt articles on the topic...
For example,
this one from 2019 which wrongly claimed copyright on a 3000 year old statue.
(Or the
insanity of "Permission Culture" in
example, after
example, after
example... even when you
try to release things as open as possible.)
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Originally Posted by Quoth
No-one needs any variation of CC, even CC-0. It has no independent existence, depending purely on local copyright laws.
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You can say whatever you want...
You can say "all my stuff is Public Domain"... but that doesn't make it so. The Berne Convention forces copyright on you automatically
(if you live in any of these countries), and you can't get rid of it.
You can declare/promise:
- I won't sue you sometime in the future.
- Please treat this like it's in the public.
- blah blah blah...
but that isn't legally enforceable + will put a chilling effect on others.
Again, this was a lot of what Creative Commons 4.0 was trying to smooth over. You can label your works as CC—and CC is in such common use, that most people, around the world, can use it to:
- Replicate in their own books
- Make videos/audiobooks
- Retranslate
- [...]
... and keep it as close to the Public Domain as possible.
(While, at the same time,
still being legally applicable/enforceable across a wide range of countries/jurisdictions.)
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Anyway, this is all veering too far from the original topic.
If you wanted to discuss nuances of copyright, I'd recommend opening another thread.
(Although the last time it happened, it turned into a madhouse.)