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
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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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