[Foundation-l] Does "free content" exist in France?

[Birgitte SB]

--- Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> --- Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 4/20/07, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > Is that so? Do moral rights not expire
> together
> > with
> > > > the copyright to the work?
> > 
> > > Depends on the juristiction.  For example in
> > France
> > > they are inalienable, perpetual and inviolable.
> > 
> > Can you cite the relevant legal code that states
> > they are perpetual?
> > 
> 
> Art. L. 121-1. L'auteur jouit du droit au respect de
> son nom, de sa qualité et de son oeuvre.
>    Ce droit est attaché à sa personne.
>    Il est perpétuel, inaliénable et imprescriptible.
>    Il est transmissible à cause de mort aux
> héritiers
> de l'auteur.
>    L'exercice peut être conféré à un tiers en vertu
> de
> dispositions testamentaires. 
> 
> 
> 

That article is from "Code de la propriété
intellectuelle (partie législative)"  Book I Title II
Chapter I (if I am reading French cardinal numbers
correctly)

Birgitte SB

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