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  • From: Peter Brink <peter.brink AT brinkdata.se>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: domain of public domain license
  • Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 23:04:01 +0200

David Isaac skrev:
Specifically it was suggested that certain rights cannot be given away this way in France and Germany, and that these rights may or may not be relevant to the intent of the license.

There has been extensive discussions about the so called moral rights on this list during the last month. If you browse the archive you will find a lot of info on the subject.

> Question #1: is the CC Public
Domain license able to accomplish its intent outside the US and specifically in France and Germany?

IMHO no... An originator cannot fully alienate himself from his work in most of Continental Europe and Scandinavia.


/Peter Brink





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