On 31 October 2011 16:27, Deryck Chan <deryckchan(a)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