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[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On 29 Jul 2004, at 22:16, Rob Myers wrote:

> > (e)     The honour and reputation 5D/5E provisions. We have already had
> > problems with the Debian classification in relation to 5G and I am 
> > sure we
> > will have issues with these provisions as well. I will check how the 
> > German
> > License has dealt with this problem and get back to you.
>
> One thing I don't think I mentioned before is that as well as these 
> being above and beyond the CC-2.0 requirements they can be used by 
> mischievous or egotistical contributors to wreak havoc on users.

But under the Berne convention authors have a right of Integrity as 
well as paternity:

Article 6bis of the Berne Convention recognizes the rights of 
“attribution” and “integrity.” This provision states that an author 
“shall have the right to claim authorship of the work [right of 
attribution] 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 his honor or reputation [the right 
of integrity]”*

The US is a Berne signatory so it's curious CC-2.0 doesn't cover these 
rights (unless I've missed something or it doesn't need to under US 
law).

Incidentally, all the other English-language iCommons licenses do seem 
to be directy modified versions of the original US CC license.

- Rob.


* From http://aic.stanford.edu/jaic/articles/jaic36-02-006_3.html