[Foundation-l] Does "free content" exist in France?
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Sat Apr 21 16:57:01 UTC 2007
Birgitte SB wrote:
>--- Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>
>>On 4/20/07, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The Free Content Definition is to only to be used to
>>>
>>>
>>>evaluate a *license* not an individual work.
>>>
>>>
>>Yes, unless there is no license attached to the
>>work.
>>
>>
>In that case we still have a problem. The perpetual
>moral rights issue particularly comes into play with
>public domain works. Which, obviously, are cases
>where there is no license attached to the work.
>
An interesting point, but could we not extent the meaning of licence to
include one that is implicitly granted by the public by virtue of being
in the public domain.
I have always maintained that the public domain is not merely an absence
of ownership, but ownership by the public at large.
Ec
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