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

[Ray Saintonge]

Pedro Sanchez wrote:

>On 4/20/07, Delphine Ménard <notafishz at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 4/20/07, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>Based on the definition [1] promoted by WMF, I am
>>>wondering if free content exists in France where moral
>>>rights are inalienable, perpetual and inviolable.
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>>I'm sorry, but in the definition, I seem to miss the part where free
>>content is tied to the "loss of' or 'giving up" one's moral rights?
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>>Could you point me to it?
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>>Thank you.
>>
>>Delphine
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>>~notafish
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>In many countries, the moral rights can't be waived or renounced (in
>Mexico you can't). But those are not the rights that licenses deal
>with, but "patrimonial" (not sure about the proper translation)
>rights.
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>No matter how free is the image, the author will always remain the
>author. That's nothing to do with freeness.
>
The right of attribution?  When through time a person's copyright has 
expired you are free to reproduce the material, but you cannot tell the 
public that you are the author;  the original author still needs to be 
credited.

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