Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 03:23:52 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again Message-ID: <20010307032352.R412@hand.dotat.at> In-Reply-To: <200103070148.SAA06002@usr05.primenet.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010306174928.00d45220@localhost> <200103070148.SAA06002@usr05.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> wrote:
>
>Authors do not have moral rights
Yes they do: "moral rights" is the terminology used in copyright law,
where it means "Supported by reason or probability; practically
sufficient; -- opposed to {legal} or {demonstrable}; as, a moral
evidence; a moral certainty" (Webster's), the point being that the
legal rights are derived from underlying moral rights.
This terminology doesn't seem to be used in US law, although it is
used in the Berne Convention, and British, Australian, and Canadian
copyright law, and probably many others.
Tony.
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