domain of public domain license

Peter Brink peter.brink at brinkdata.se
Tue Apr 12 17:04:01 EDT 2005


David Isaac skrev:
> Specifically it was suggested that 
> certain rights cannot be given away this way in France and 
> Germany, and that these rights may or may not be relevant to 
> the intent of the license.  

There has been extensive discussions about the so called moral rights on 
this list during the last month. If you browse the archive you will find 
a lot of info on the subject.

 > Question #1: is the CC Public
> Domain license able to accomplish its intent outside the US 
> and specifically in France and Germany?

IMHO no... An originator cannot fully alienate himself from his work in 
most of Continental Europe and Scandinavia.


/Peter Brink




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