--- Pedro Sanchez pdsanchez@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/20/07, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/20/07, Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com
wrote:
Based on the definition [1] promoted by WMF, I
am
wondering if free content exists in France where
moral
rights are inalienable, perpetual and
inviolable.
I'm sorry, but in the definition, I seem to miss
the part where free
content is tied to the "loss of' or 'giving up"
one's moral rights?
Could you point me to it?
Thank you.
Delphine
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In many countries, the moral rights can't be waived or renounced (in Mexico you can't). But those are not the rights that licenses deal with, but "patrimonial" (not sure about the proper translation) rights.
No matter how free is the image, the author will always remain the author. That's nothing to do with freeness.
The question arises in juristictions were they can be waived. Whether works which still maintian perpetual moral rights or their equivalent in a juristition where other works do not are free content. I asked the question as I did because it is the extreme situation. Where the rights are perpetual and cannot be waived. And the reasoning to justify the extreme situation can be applied universally to evalute other the freedom of other works.
Birgitte SB
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