On 20/04/07, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 4/20/07, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Depends on the juristiction. For example in
France
> they are inalienable, perpetual and inviolable.
That's pretty awful - perpetual restrictions are a
terrible idea - but
if these are, in fact, in effect, I would consider it unwise to
restrict our content to not accept PD materials from these countries.
Fortunately, modifications that trigger any kind of moral rights claim
ought to be of no relevance to virtually all uses of WM content people
might be interested in.
Kat, what do you think? It may be necessary to amend the licensing
policy to clarify the whole moral rights situation.
This was discussed on Commons talk:Licensing a while ago, in regard to
the horrible new CC 3.0 licenses - where they thought it'd be a great
idea to put moral rights into the licenses themselves for those
countries. Meaning that some versions of CC by-sa 3.0 are free
licenses and some aren't.
- d.