Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Robin Millette <millette AT waglo.com>]

drew Roberts wrote:
> On Thursday 24 March 2005 06:51 am, Peter Brink wrote:

> For those ignorant on moral rights issues, in countries where they apply, are 
> they generally created by the copyright laws or by independant moral rights 
> laws or some ohter way?

In Canada, moral rights are part of the copyright law:
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/fr/C-42/35168.html#article-14.1

> > A possible source of the confusion which seems to be the reason for this
> > thread is that Open Source and Open Content licenses (as such) are
> > governed by contractual law and international private law while the

> This is a statement which I believe from my reading, big boys in the Free 
> Software world would disagree with and I am not talking about the "Open 
> Source" issue.

I would have to disagree as well. Software is covered by copyright in 
most jurisdictions (which is a little odd when you think about it, since 
copyright doesn't otherwise apply for functionnal creations, but I 
disgress). And the Free Software / Open Source licences are all designed 
to plug into copyright and allow greater rights then are permitted by 
default.

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