[Wikipedia-l] Re: What would Richard Stallman say? (IP users)

[Abigail Brady]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 06:27, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> Till Westermayer <till at tillwe.de> writes:
> 
> > Depends. In the US, you can, in Germany, you can't.
> 
> I guess you meant the "urheberrecht" in Germany - it is conceptionally
> different from the US copyright.  The one who creates a work owns the
> "urheberrecht" and he or she can grant the right to make use of the work
> to somebody else.  That's it roughly.

That's called the 'moral right' in English.  It means effectively squat.

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Abi