[Foundation-l] Moral rights

[Teofilo]

> It would seem that the right to license one's own work as one chooses is
> one of those rights. How does French law resolve that conflict?

By declaring that the contract where the contractant "chooses" to
waive a fundamental right is void.

You find the same line of thought in Jean Jacques Rousseau's social contract :

"To say that a man gives himself gratuitously, is to say what is
absurd and inconceivable; such an act is null and illegitimate, from
the mere fact that he who does it is out of his mind."

French : "Dire qu’un homme se donne gratuitement, c’est dire une chose
absurde et inconcevable ; un tel acte est illégitime et nul, par cela
seul que celui qui le fait n’est pas dans son bon sens. "

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Social_Contract/Book_I#4._Slavery