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  • From: Marcus Bornfreund <marcus AT uottawa.ca>
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  • Subject: [Cc-ca] Why can’t a creator waive attribution or their moral rights?
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 17:05:34 -0400

Why can’t a creator waive attribution or their moral rights?

In order to generate a Creative Commons licence, creators from all world jurisdictions go through the licence selection-page hosted at the main Creative Commons website. After answering the questions on the licence selection-page, a licence appropriate to the jurisdiction of the creator is generated.
The framework for the creation of Creative Commons licences is based on the American copyright regime, which does not include moral rights or an analogous concept. As such, there is currently no mechanism within the licence generation process that would allow Canadian creators to preserve or waive their moral rights. Furthermore, in order to maintain efficiency and preserve the strongest possible protection for copyright holders we have followed Creative Commons' lead by making an attribution requirement embedded in all licence permutations (see further at: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/4216). Consequently, a creator cannot choose to waive attribution or other moral rights - they are implicit - the Canadian customized licences will automatically reserve these rights. Based on demand this may be altered in subsequent versions.

However, in practice, the creator will still retain maximum flexibility. Attribution and moral integrity can always be disavowed upon specific licensee request, and pseudonymous and anonymous authorship are always options for a licensor.
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  • [Cc-ca] Why can’t a creator waive attribution or their moral rights?, Marcus Bornfreund, 06/10/2004

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