Well, I was part of the translation team of CC for France, and I translated Lessig's "The Future of Ideas" in french...
and in fact it was quite easy to deal with CC since these contracts do not require the author to renounce to its right, they propose him to authorize a few uses in advance...
it's a completely different approach from releasing a work in PD
CC is now translated in french and adapted to french law... and it works well :D
Jean-Baptiste Soufron, Doctorant CERSA - CNRS, Paris 2 http://soufron.free.fr
Le 10 mai 05, à 21:05, Till Westermayer a écrit :
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Hi,
how do the CC people handle this?
Till
Here it is:
The article L-121-1 explains that moral rights are : "perpétuel, inaliénable et imprescriptible", it lasts forever, they can't renounce to it and they can sue even years after a copyvio.
And when talking about patrimonial rights, there are various provisions implying that the author cannot contribute his work to PD : L-122-7 precises very strong formalities for any release of his representation or reproduction rights, L-122-8 precises that authors possess a forever right to get 3% of any auction of their work and that they can't renounce to it.
But more importantly, L-131-2 states that : "Les contrats de représentation, d'édition et de production audiovisuelle définis au présent titre doivent être constatés par écrit. Il en est de même des autorisations gratuites d'exécution" which means that any contract to sell their representation/edition rights must be a written one, even when they authorizes free use of their work !
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.
etc. etc. etc.
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