David Gerard wrote:
On 16/05/07, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
* Paragraph 1 of Resolution:Licensing policy is
clarified: The
licensing policy does not apply to any inalienable moral rights
associated with a work.
Does it apply to moral rights codified in a licence, e.g. some of the
CC 3.0 licenses? Are those free-enough or not? There's lots of
discussions on Commons talk:Licensing, but surely a Commons talk page
shouldn't be setting WMF-wide policy on such a matter.
It seems that introducing "inalienable moral rights" into our rules
opens up a really be can of worms. The views on this concept in the
English and non-English speaking are heading in opposite directions, and
also involve where the different legal systems are heading in opposing
directions. Although they tend to be legislated in association with
copyrights they are different.
We often speak of having our content be free in the economic sense of
copyright, and to have that freedom applicable in as many countries as
possible. I think that the freedom to modify is an integral part of
that policy. A regime where American users can modify a work, but where
Europeans are not even allowed to permit modification of their own work
is not free at all. I would prefer that we make it clear that uploading
implies licensing the right to modify.
Until there is considerably more clarity about moral rights we would do
better not to introduce that term in our policies at all.
Ec