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  • From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen AT iki.fi>
  • 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 21:37:17 +0200

On Mar 25, 2005, at 12:06, Peter Brink wrote:
Moral rights cases are relatively (relative to Europe) common in Sweden. Some examples:

For comparison, I searched the decisions of the Finnish Supreme Court. I found five cases that involved moral rights. In all of them, the plaintiff claimed both a copyright infringement and a violation of moral rights. (Well, one of the cases was not about copyright proper but about the right to a photograph, which is a copyright-like Nordic concept.)

In three of the cases, the court found in favor of the plaintiff on the count a copyright infringement but found that the moral rights had not been violated. In the fourth case, the courts seemed to dodge the issue of moral rights, because the court found that a copyright infringement had occurred. In the fifth case, the issue of moral rights (the right of photographer to get attribution) was left unexamined, because the photographer was already dead and the court found that the moral rights were untransferable and, therefore, the successors of the photographer's business had no standing to enforce the moral rights.

Based on these cases, it seems to me that moral rights claims attached as extras to cases that are really about copyright infringement don't fly.

IANAL, etc.

For the interested (abstracts available in Swedish as well):
http://www.finlex.fi/fi/oikeus/kko/kko/1988/19880082
http://www.finlex.fi/fi/oikeus/kko/kko/1992/19920063
http://www.finlex.fi/fi/oikeus/kko/kko/1987/19870016
http://www.finlex.fi/fi/oikeus/kko/kko/1994/19940099
http://www.finlex.fi/fi/oikeus/kko/kko/1995/19950124

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Henri Sivonen
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http://hsivonen.iki.fi/





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