Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Peter Knupfer, H-Net" <peter AT mail.h-net.msu.edu>]

Thanks to Henri Sivonen for the moral rights cases; they are very 
helpful.  The sample reinforces the suspicion that attribution forms the 
biggest class of such claims.

I started this thread in order to get information about on the CC 
license's impact on certain dimensions of moral rights (the moral right 
to be cited is already protected in the license).  I direct a global 
organization with thousands of writers and contributors living in 
countries with moral rights regimes in place, so putting the entire 
archive of documents under CC license could be a fateful step if we 
don't properly anticipate at least some of the consequences.

Aside from Mr. London's intemperate op-ed rant about the dangers of 
moral rights and about "rights" being whatever he says they are 
regardless of what anybody else (including courts, constitutions, 
legislators, and treaties, I guess) says they are, the contributions and 
discussion here were quite helpful.  I agree that it's best to move the 
moral rights question to another venue (I noticed that Lessig is 
discussing it at his blog in ref. to the CC wiki license), especially 
before London lets fly with another eclectic bit of street law.

Thanks again,

Peter