[Foundation-l] "Terms of use" : Anglo-saxon copyright law and Anglo-saxon lawyers : a disgrace for Continental Europeans

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