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  • From: Peter Brink <peter.brink AT brinkdata.se>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: CC licenses and "moral rights"
  • Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:04:41 +0100

drew Roberts skrev:

And moral rights will have a chilling effect on me and people who think like me. It is too risky to build on someone else's work and have the chance of them taking me to court. What is to prevent them from objecting to my derivative becasue they fear it is way better than their original and they don't want the competition? Or they don't like my opinion as to the true terminal velocity of the African Barn Swallow?

If they have these concerns and CC chills them they can always release "all rights reserved" - what benefits would CC bring to these people? One of the beauties I see in the GPL is that it allows even people who hate each other to work together to their mutual benefit. I am a bit of an optomist and think that these sorts of working together can perhaps lead ot bigger things in some situations.


Moral rights does not grant an creator some kind of unlimited power. He must prove that his artistic integrity has been somehow violated, your examples do not violate anyones artistic integrity.

I think you're over-reacting. Moral rights is a matter of respect, respect for another persons creation. In the same way as one should treat ones neighbors with respect one should treat other peoples creations with respect.

/Peter Brink






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