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  • From: Peter Brink <peter.brink AT brinkdata.se>
  • To: Development of Creative Commons licenses <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] CC 3.01
  • Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:40:25 +0200

Fruggo skrev:

Another aspect I'm wondering at is what is allowed when there are more
jurisdictions applicable. The article suggests that an author gains moral
rights in some jurisdictions, where he hasn't got them in his own country
(jurisdiction). This is caused by the part "jurisdiction in which the moral
right of integrity exist". If that juridisdiction is the jurisdiction where
the work is used, than suddenly moral rights have to be respected although
in his own jurisdiction, the author might not have moral rights at all. I'm
not sure that's the intention of the license.


Copyright law is always national. A French authors work(s), published in France, will be protected by Dutch laws in the Netherlands, German laws in Germany etc. Since the license lets moral right be it would seem that an author from for example the US would gain moral rights when asserting his rights in, let say, Sweden. However, that is not necessarily the case... Sweden, as does most other countries, only grants foreign authors those rights that the foreign authors own country grants Swedish authors. If the US does not grant moral rights to foreign authors then US authors are not granted any moral rights in Sweden. Since it's quite possible to discriminate once own authors and give foreign authors *more* rights than native authors, one would have to check the copyright legislation of both the country offering protection (the "jurisdiction in which the moral right of integrity exist") *and* the rules of the country in which the licensor lives to be able to know whether or not the license lets a licensor gain moral rights or not.

/Peter Brink




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