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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 12:11:43 -0500

On Friday 25 March 2005 10:08 am, Greg London wrote:
> Evan Prodromou said:
> > Unless this is going to stay focused on the retention of moral rights in
> > CC licenses, I strongly suggest that this conversation move to
> > cc-community.
>
> I'm starting to think the focus should be on the removal
> of moral rights. Unfortunately, what little I know and
> have heard about european law around this, is that
> European law does not allow an author to say up front:
>
> "I promise to never open the trap door underneath you"

Do the licenses allow specification of controlling legal jurisdiction? If
not,
could they and would this lead to a way to circumvent.

Could you have include in the license a restriction by the original author
that if any derivative authors bring a suit on moral rights then they are in
violation of the original authors copyrights?

Could you have the original author make the promise in a jurisdiction without
moral rights, so that if they bring a suit in a moral rights country, the
person they are bringing the suit against could counter-sue in the country in
which the promise was made?

Other ideas?

At this point, let's please all try not to get bent out of shape. Let's
explore possibilities to accomplish all objectives as well as have the
discussion as to which objectives we whould persue.

all the best,

drew

From a question asked of someone else in another post, I am an author. Here
is
a link to some of my stuff release CC BY-SA:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22drew%20Roberts%22

Also, I wrote a 60,000 word "novel" as a part of nanowrimo 2004:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/userinfo.php?uid=47354

and am now trying to get some things worked out so that I can release it
under
a CC BY-SA license.

So far, I have not made any money from my artistic writings, but I have made
some from original GPL programming and from customising GPL and other Free
programs.




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