discuss: [Debian removes free documentation / technical aspects]
Subject:
Re: [discuss] [Debian removes free documentation / technical aspects]
From:
Randy Kramer ####@####.####
Date:
17 Apr 2006 01:18:25 -0000
Message-Id: <200604162111.17453.rhkramer@gmail.com>
On Sunday 16 April 2006 02:01 pm, David Lawyer wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 08:27:14AM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 April 2006 01:07 am, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> > > A licence cannot grant rights not allowed by copyright law.
> >
> > I'm almost certain it can. The one exception in some countries
> > other than the US might be the authors "moral" right of authorship
> > (is that how that's phrased), which, iiuc, in those countries cannot
> > be transferred from the author under any circumstances.
>
> If I recall correctly, I thought that "moral" rights were effective
> in the U.S. also, but are not spelled out in statue law. This would
> mean that even if you use public domain material, you must give the
> author credit. I've noticed that large chunks of one of my HOWTO's
> have been put on the Internet without acknowledgement that I wrote it.
> This is a violation of my "moral" rights but I'm too busy to do
> anything about it. I wonder how often this happens to other HOWTOs.
Sorry--I guess I should have said IANAL ;-) I don't know about moral rights
in the US--first time I heard about them was as a right that authors in other
countries had. You could be right.
Randy Kramer
