Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Henri Sivonen <hsivonen AT iki.fi>]

On Mar 25, 2005, at 15:58, drew Roberts wrote:

> I don't doubt you are right, but I think you miss my point and so I 
> think I am
> also right. "He must prove that his artistic integrity..." and where 
> would he
> prove it if not in court? And since I do not want to run a real risk of
> winding up in court, I will not knowingly be building on his work.

For one thing, societies that have moral rights are generally less 
litiguous and rely more on common sense that societies with the 
Anglo-American legal tradition. :-) That's why in practice moral rights 
are not as paralyzing as they appear when you look from the 
Anglo-American point of view.

But yeah, Finns worry about them, too, sometimes. The usual stance is 
that the moral rights related to software are expected to be next to 
non-existent, so moral rights are not considered such a problem for 
software projects, which to date have been the most important copyleft 
projects.

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