On Sun, June 3, 2007 05:09, David Gerard wrote:
That's begging the question. Where they've written moral rights into the copyright license, I'd question whether it is free content. I have (and see so far) no objection to the CC pd, by, sa and by-sa 3.0 licenses *without* the moral rights jammed into the license itself.
Thing is, as I read it (ianaleither but I've been around UK copyright and moral rights a long time) all they have done is make explicit in their version 3 licence what already exists in law. Copyright and Moral Rights exist together but also separate and whilst older CC licences have dealt with the Copyright aspect they've ignored the Moral Rights side. Given that the law (well, the UK one - Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act) is quite explicit that the Moral Rights exist then to add an initial 'yes we recognise that moral rights exist' into the new licence seems a very sensible thing to do. And given that those terms are not adding or subtracting anything from the status quo on moral rights then I fail to see why the concern.
Alison Wheeler