It seems so. Our exploitive techniques of forcing contributors to sign away their rights are void in France, apparently.
Fred
From: Delirium delirium@hackish.org Reply-To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 18:32:16 -0400 To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Re: no PD in France
Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:
Article L-131-5 even precises that if the author released his rights but that he got more than 7/12 less than what he should have been normally awarded, he can sue to get it.
Does this mean that a French author can sue us for using work that he voluntarily contributed to Wikipedia? Assuming the author's work has monetary value more than zero, then the zero we are paying him is by necessity more than 7/12 less than what it is really worth. Are we legally different in this case than a commercial publisher who convinces someone to sign away his rights for much less than they're worth?
Very odd...
-Mark
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