On 31 October 2011 16:27, Deryck Chan deryckchan@gmail.com wrote:
I won't deliberately avoid using works whose copyright will expire next year due to the author dying in the war in 1941. That's a moral right, not copyright. Wikimedia shouldn't take sides on moral right issues.
The language may be confusing here, "moral rights" are specific legal copyright law rights which one may defend in court in order to gain compensation. Examples include the right of attribution even though the work is free to reuse. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights_(copyright_law). In this case Wikimedia does take a stance on moral rights as we see they are maintained in the license terms.
Cheers, Fae