Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Peter Brink <peter.brink AT brinkdata.se>]

drew Roberts skrev:
> 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.

Moral rights is not (such) an issue in the US. A discussion on how to 
solve moral rights issues with CC licenses is not likely to be very 
meaningful based on US law...

> 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.

Well the rule is that if you own a copy of a work then you may do 
whatever you like with it. Some works only exist as a original 
(buildings, paintings and sculptures are good examples), and then it's 
reasonable that the artist could object. In your example I guess that if 
the artist became aware of the project he could try to stop it. If the 
artwork already had been destroyed, I think that in some jurisdictions 
(France for example) the artist would have a case. But this is a rather 
esoteric case.


/Peter Brink