[Foundation-l] "Terms of use" : Anglo-saxon copyright law and Anglo-saxon lawyers : a disgrace for Continental Europeans
Marc A. Pelletier
marc at uberbox.org
Mon Dec 12 20:05:50 UTC 2011
On 12/12/2011 3:02 PM, Andre Engels wrote:
> 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.
That may be the case, but any contributions to the projects is made
under an unequivocal grants of permission to redistribute under those
terms; the TOS only restate the inevitable, they're not putting forth
any new concept there.
-- Coren / Marc
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