[Foundation-l] What's appropriate attribution?

[geni]

2008/10/21 Mike Godwin <mgodwin at wikimedia.org>:
>
> Thomas Dalton writes:
>>
>>>> While copyright is largely harmonised, does that include moral
>>>> rights?
>>>
>>> More or less.
>>
>> The "or less" is the bit you need to worry about, then.
>
> Wow, thanks.
>

Worse than that. Technically most EU countries should have identical
moral rights clauses. Implementation of the clauses is inconsistent
and in many cases there is a lack of caselaw (although the lawsuit
over changing a bridge design failed).

For the average wikipedian on the ground the issue is less one of what
you can handle or find people to handle (I generally assume that the
foundation can deal with pretty much any copyright issues should it
have to) but how much attention we should be paying to moral rights at
all. At the moment we mostly ignore them (along with most non
copyright related IP stuff) but we don't know if this is a long term
viable approach.

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geni