Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org>]

On 05/10/2012 01:29 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Misrepresenting opinions, to the extent that it should be a legal
> offense, is a deceit, not a violation of copyright. What laws cover
> deceit? Fraud, defamation, etc. – not copyright.

It's a violation of moral rights under the Berne Convention:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights_%28copyright_law%29#Berne_Convention

"Independent of the author's economic rights, and even after the 
transfer of the said rights, the author shall have the right to claim 
authorship of the work and to object to any distortion, mutilation or 
other modification of, or other derogatory action in relation to the 
said work, which would be prejudicial to the author's honor or reputation."

Berne is the baseline for international copyright law and therefore for 
the CC licenses.

- Rob.