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  • From: drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>
  • 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 09:03:24 -0500

On Friday 25 March 2005 06:13 am, Peter Brink wrote:
> drew Roberts skrev:
> > I am ignorant of moral rights in practice, but from what little I have
> > read and examples I have seen quoted, they can go pretty far. For
> > instance, after finding out what little I have, it seems to me that one
> > possible example of their use is:
> >
> > I own a Rembrandt, I buy a modern work from a living painter and hand
> > them both in the reception area of my company. The living painter can
> > object to my hanging his painting next to the Rembrandt.
>
> Well, he could claim that - a court would then have to decide whether
> the artist really had grounds for such a claim. Personally I think the
> case sounds like a far stretch.

I think it is a stretch too, but I am still in court having to defend myself.
Now, perhaps the lawsuit game is played differently in your country than in
the US, but this looks like serious problems for the US. You could be
harrassed endlessly.
>
> > They can give the creator rights over physical items of art even after
> > they have sold those items.
>
> Correct.


Question, could a rich man with a grudge buy up all of the artworks of a
particular, say sculptur, and destroy them all?

Legally that is.

all the best,

drew




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