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  • From: "Greg London" <email AT greglondon.com>
  • To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: CC licenses and "moral rights"
  • Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:29:29 -0500 (EST)


Peter Knupfer, H-Net said:
> These are fairly serious issues for scholars who are sharing documents
> or putting up preprints that can be snatched and inserted into
> anthologies in ways that distort the original work's meaning.

> the CC license can have a significant chilling effect on the sharing of some
> works -- especially culturally-sensitive or highly emotional materials.

Two strong assertions. Do you have any example?
Not a hypothetical example, but a real-world example
where Moral Rights somehow saved the day?

My current feeling towards moral rights is that they are
even worse than Fair Use from a gotta-go-to-court-to-sort-it-out
point of view.

I assume we're talking about more than an author being
able to demand their name be taken off of a derivative,
and more about an author stopping someone from distributing
a derivative that the author doesn't like.

Moral Rights in a multi-user Gift Economy project sounds
like even more of a nightmare.








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