[Foundation-l] "Terms of use" : Anglo-saxon copyright law and Anglo-saxon lawyers : a disgrace for Continental Europeans

[Ryan Kaldari]

That's the whole point of free licenses—you're giving up some of your 
rights to your work. This doesn't have anything to do with European vs. 
American copyright law.

I checked the wording in the existing terms of service and it's exactly 
the same.

Ryan Kaldari


On 12/12/11 12:02 PM, Andre Engels wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Ryan Kaldari<rkaldari at wikimedia.org>  wrote:
>> Would you care to explain anything you're talking about?
>>
>> I don't see anything in the Licensing section that mentions anything
>> about U.S. copyright law. It says the content is licensed under the GFDL
>> and CC-BY-SA, and the Attribution section just reflects the standard
>> practices for those licenses. I don't see anything about how we're
>> supposed to belittle and disgrace Europeans, but maybe I missed that part :)
> I think what he means is that under most European copyright regimes,
> an author has far-reaching personality rights, which include the right
> to have the work accredited to them whenever it is republished. The
> terms of use, in his feeling, hollow out this right by redefining the
> obligatory credit part of the GFL and CC-BY-SA in such a way that one
> can mention all authors by doing something that does not include
> mentioning any of them.
>