2026-04-12 22:38 UTC
You're confusing two separate legal issues.
Copyright is created and enforced by copyright law.
Licenses are created and enforced by contract law.
You can violate a contract without violating a copyright and you can violate a copyright without agreeing to a license. You can also license works that are not able to be protected by a copyright because they are two separate categories of law.
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@hperrin@lemmy.ca 2026-04-13 00:44
Sure, you can license them, but that license is unenforceable, because you don’t own the copyrights, so you can’t sue anyone for copyright infringement. And you’d have to be a fool to agree to a license for public domain material. You can do whatever you want with it, no license necessary.