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  • From: Cory Doctorow <doctorow AT craphound.com>
  • To: Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>
  • Cc: cc-uk AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Cc-uk] Legal Bugs Report+ToDo list
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:58:31 +0100

I think that we should be seeking under each legal system to make the licenses as close to CCUS as possible -- letting Germany be the ceiling instead of the floor is a mistake, IMO.

On Jul 30, 2004, at 3:56 PM, Rob Myers wrote:

On Friday, July 30, 2004, at 03:39PM, Andres Guadamuz <a.guadamuz AT ed.ac.uk> wrote:

My recommendation in short, attribution right must be explicitly asserted,

This sounds right in order to match CC-BY. I read somewhere that BY's attribution clause has the effect of giving the paternity moral right in the US, which is a creative use of licensing.

derogatory treatment must be explicitly waived.

IANAL but waiving integrity is more problematic. A.Metzger's talk on licenses linked from the CC Weblog is informative regarding this. You *can't* have a global waiver of moral rights in Germany, so there's a potential faultline between the US (where you can waive but which doesn't seem to care anyway), the UK (where you can waive) and Germany (where you can't).

I agree with the problems you identify in giving integrity rights through the license as BY gives paternity rights. I do however believe that global compatibility is the most important aim regarding this, so integrity/non-derogation should be added to CC-2.0 and CC-UK. This is easier than reforming civil law in Germany and elsewhere, which is the only alternative I can see. :-)

- Rob.
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