Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

[Danyl Strype <strypey AT disintermedia.net.nz>]

Kia ora koutou

Thanks Matt for your comments. Good to know also that the wording of
the CC licenses does protect people from having derivatives falsely
attributed to them. I note there is a brief discussion on moral rights
in the FAQ on cc.org.nz, but perhaps it would be worth having creating
a document or FAQ specifically about moral rights; what they are, how
they protect authors under ARR copyright, and some specific examples
of how they might protect an author using CC licenses? This could be
made available as a printable document/ pamphlet under Resources, and
as a more prominent page on the website?

On a related tangent, you may remember some months ago we had a fairly
robust discussion about the Students for Free Culture proposal to
phase out NC and ND. During that discussion, the risk of derogatory or
insensitive use of an author's work was presented as a reason to keep
ND. If we accept that both moral rights, and the wording of the CC
licenses offers this level of protection *without* the use of ND, is
there still any compelling reason to have licenses which forbid remix
and mash-up?

Hei kōnā
Strypey

On 13 June 2013 10:08, Matt McGregor <Matt.McGregor AT royalsociety.org.nz> 
wrote:
> Hi Danyl, all,
>
> For better or worse, this problem of 'misuse,' 'misrepresentation' & its 
> many variants is often cited as a reason for adopting ND licences. If 
> you're talking with licence users, it's often worth pointing out that CC 
> licences don't affect moral rights. I suspect that many licence users don't 
> know that moral rights exist, let alone that CC licences don't affect them.
>
> Second, the wonderfully clear CC-NZ licences 
> (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/legalcode) state:
>
> "You must... not assert or imply any connection with sponsorship or 
> endorsement by the Original Author or Licensor of You or Your use of the 
> Work, without the separate, express prior written permission of the 
> Original Author or Licensor."
>
> They also state: "You must not.... falsely Attribute the Work to someone 
> other than the Original Author."
>
> Cheers,
> Matt




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