2011/3/4 Teofilo <teofilowiki(a)gmail.com>om>:
(...)
(3) For example Spanish copyright law article 14
"derechos
irrenunciables e inalienables (...) Exigir el reconocimiento de su
condiciĆ³n 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