geni writes:
Worse than that. Technically most EU countries should
have identical
moral rights clauses. Implementation of the clauses is inconsistent
and in many cases there is a lack of caselaw (although the lawsuit
over changing a bridge design failed).
There's a reason for the lack of caselaw, even though implementation
among Berne signatory countries is inconsistent -- it's that truly
problematic moral-rights problems don't come up very much. What's
more, even if our own follow-through on attribution requirements of
GFDL (or CC-BY-SA) is less than it might be, the thing to note is that
we're actively trying to maintain attribution, even though a massively
collaborative environment such as Wikpedia makes such an effort both
difficult and (arguably) less than meaningful. Most moral-rights
disputes arise in cases where someone is actively trying to *remove*
attribution or to *misattribute* a work. That's not normally our
problem.
For the average wikipedian on the ground the issue is
less one of what
you can handle or find people to handle (I generally assume that the
foundation can deal with pretty much any copyright issues should it
have to)
It's nice to know somebody assumes that.
--Mike