[Foundation-l] Moral rights

[Birgitte SB]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Teofilo <teofilowiki at gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Fri, March 4, 2011 5:05:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Moral rights
> 
> 2011/2/27 Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com>:
> > No  one wants to attack French moral rights, or the attack the idiosyncrasies  
>of
> > any particular legal jurisdiction.  What we want to do is curate a  large
> > international collection of free content that will remain free  content 300 
>years
> > from now after all of us are dead and can no longer be  personally vigilant
> > regarding those who might try to restrict the  descendants of our collected
> > content from others.  What is it that you  want to do?
> >
> > Birgitte SB
> >
> 
> No one ? I would not say  so. I would rather say that 75.8% (1) want to
> attack moral rights, which are  not French only (3), and, as I showed
> in my previous mail, are a value taken  into account in Wikimedia
> projects in such documents as
>http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:OTRS#Declaration_of_consent_for_all_enquiries
>s
> 
> It  might have become a core value of the Wikimedia communities. But  if
> community leaders lead the community into the wrong way... you end  up
> with a 75.8 majority going into the wrong way.
> 


It is not reasonable to believe the underlying desire there is to make an attack 
French moral rights. Please try to be accurate and stop making such spurious 
accusations.

Birgitte SB