Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Alex Schroeder <alex AT gnu.org>]

Greg London schrieb:

> Some countries may not allow a blanket waiver, that's democracy.
> But countries that DO allow blanket waivers ought to be able to
> have a license option that lets them exercise that waiver because
> that's a result of democracy too.
>  
I think the point is that these countries are trying to protect artists 
against having to sell-out.  By forbidding the sell-out, they are 
actually protecting artists against publishers.  So I don't think 
introducing such an option will be easy.  The current state of the 
affair is that the authors claim that they will not sue you if you 
violate their moral rights.  If you do, however, and the authors are 
having a bad day, bad luck.  The point is that we would like authors to 
waive their moral rights in order to protect down-stream authors.  From 
this I conclude that the only safe bet is to never violate the moral 
rights of authors.  Living in a country that protects these moral 
rights, I can't see anything wrong with this, except to note that it is 
not 100% compatible with the anglo-saxon tradition.  I mean, /factually/ 
the moral rights are not terrible tools of censorship or anything like 
that.  Or in other words, if the courts allowed the use of moral rights 
to enforce censorship, then people in such a country probably have other 
things to worry about as well...

I don't know whether this was touched upon at the European meeting in 
Amsterdam, though.

Alex.