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

[Ray Saintonge]

Birgitte SB wrote:

>--- Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>>On 4/20/07, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com>
>>wrote:
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>>>The Free Content Definition is to only to be used to
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>>>evaluate a *license* not an individual work.
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>>Yes, unless there is no license attached to the
>>work. 
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>In that case we still have a problem.  The perpetual
>moral rights issue particularly comes into play with
>public domain works.  Which, obviously, are cases
>where there is no license attached to the work.
>
An interesting point, but could we not extent the meaning of licence to 
include one that is implicitly granted by the public by virtue of being 
in the public domain.

I have always maintained that the public domain is not merely an absence 
of ownership, but ownership by the public at large.

Ec