2011/3/4 Teofilo <teofilow...@gmail.com>: > 2011/3/4 Teofilo <teofilow...@gmail.com>: > (...) >> (3) For example Spanish copyright law article 14 "derechos >> irrenunciables e inalienables (...) Exigir el reconocimiento de su >> condición de autor de la obra" >> >> http://civil.udg.es/normacivil/estatal/reals/Lpi.html >> >> They are also provided an international recognition in the Berne >> Convention Article 6bis : "Independently 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 his honor or reputation." >> >> http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/trtdocs_wo001.html#P123_20726 >> > > See also the Japanese copyright law article 19 "the author shall have > the right to determine whether his true name or pseudonym should be > indicated or not, as the name of the author, on the original of his > work or when his work is offered to or made available to the public. > The author shall have the same right with respect to the indication of > his name when works derived form his work are offered to or made > available to the public" > > http://www.cric.or.jp/cric_e/clj/cl2_1.html#cl2_1+SS2 > > coupled together with article 59 "Moral rights of the author shall be > exclusively personal to him and inalienable." Inalienable means they > can't be either sold or waived.": incapable of being alienated, > surrendered, or transferred " > http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inalienable > > http://www.cric.or.jp/cric_e/clj/cl2_2.html#cl2_2+S5 > > So it is not just a crazy French or European thing. How can so many > countries' legislatures be wrong ?
Until the 2009 license change, there was a narrow path with GFDL, enabling to build Wikipedia in each country without breaking too many laws (1). But with the 2009 license change, WMF is behaving like a bull in a china shop. (1) Even if you did everything right with Moral Rights, the French law is still broken in a couple of places. But this is not a scoop. Remember what Lawrence Lessig said about German law in http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Quarto/2/En-5 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
