Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Daniel Carrera <dcarrera AT math.umd.edu>]

Evan Prodromou wrote:

> > "2. **Waive attribution after request to remove references**.
> >
> > In a country with "moral rights" this would not be possible and
> > would in fact be an illegal clause.
> 
> If a request to remove attribution can effectively take away the
> licensee's right to distribute the work, then the work isn't free.

In a country with "moral rights", what happens if an author asks to remove 
references? AFAIK, the ability to request references removed is supposed to 
be a "moral right". Now, here drew is saying that removing a request for 
attribution is not permitted by "moral rights".

It seems strange to me that those countries would have a natural dead lock 
like that. Does this mean that in France any author can freeze the 
distribution of any work he particpated in, regardless of other agreements? 
That just /can't/ be right. It would allow any employee to kill the company 
he works for if he doesn't like his pay raise.

There /must/ be some way that moral rights avoid this dead-lock. I suggest 
someone find out what that is. Because whatever it is, holds the key to 
solving this conflict here.

Cheers,
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