I've been struggling with the dilemma of whether to continue to use #CC0 or shift back into using ##CC-BY-SA like I briefly did when I first discovered Creative Commons licenses over fifteen years ago.
What I really want is to contribute to the public domain, to a literal "creative commons." But I've seen CC0 be abused so much, in such ways that the intent of it seems to be subverted to the point that in practice it becomes a nightmare. This mainly seems to be a problem for those who create music, what with bogus ContentID claims and the like, but I worry it could apply to my primary media forms too (writing and video) and part of my goal in using it is to let it flow freely and not have to think too much about it. I don't want the CC0 status of a work threatened by someone who barely tweaks it and then says it is their copyrighted, derivative work.
CC-BY-SA is on some level closer to what I want - a creative commons, a kind of "public domain," but theoretically protected from bad actors. Yet then, I've heard opinions from those with legal backgrounds, who take an interest in such things, that one is then better off registering the copyrights on works before applying CC-BY-SA since it is a license on a copyrighted work, after all - which feels a little gross and hypocritical, but even more so is an expensive and bureaucratic pain in the neck.
I keep running this over and over in my head. What to do? I feel stuck.
