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Re: [cc-community] Re: CC licenses and "moral rights"

From: Peter Brink <peter.brink AT brinkdata.se>
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [cc-community] Re: CC licenses and "moral rights"
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:53:32 +0200

Henri Sivonen skrev:

On Mar 28, 2005, at 13:47, Peter Brink wrote:

Licenses that are designed to circumvent moral rights are also not IMHO going to "sell" very well. Moral rights are an important matter in Europe, you will probably scare off many prospective users by introducing such licenses. To my mind it's just a plain bad idea.

However, you can "sell" software licenses with patent-related mutual assured destructions clauses, so that isn't too scary.

Yes - but the such terms in a contract is not by default invalid or even unlawful, which would be the case with terms that tried to suppress or circumvent moral rights.

On cc-community I posted a link to a paper on Open Source and German Copyright Law (http://www.tilljaeger.de/art10.pdf ). On page 64 the authors discusses moral rights, might be worth reading.

/Peter Brink

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