[Foundation-l] Moral rights

Sat Mar 5 12:10:20 UTC 2011

2011/3/4 Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com>:
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> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Teofilo <teofilowiki at gmail.com>
>> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Sent: Fri, March 4, 2011 5:05:11 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Moral rights
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>> 2011/2/27 Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com>:
>> > No  one wants to attack French moral rights, or the attack the idiosyncrasies
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>> > any particular legal jurisdiction.  What we want to do is curate a  large
>> > international collection of free content that will remain free  content 300
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>> > from now after all of us are dead and can no longer be  personally vigilant
>> > regarding those who might try to restrict the  descendants of our collected
>> > content from others.  What is it that you  want to do?
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>> > Birgitte SB
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>> No one ? I would not say  so. I would rather say that 75.8% (1) want to
>> attack moral rights, which are  not French only (3), and, as I showed
>> in my previous mail, are a value taken  into account in Wikimedia
>> projects in such documents as
>>http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:OTRS#Declaration_of_consent_for_all_enquiries
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>> It  might have become a core value of the Wikimedia communities. But  if
>> community leaders lead the community into the wrong way... you end  up
>> with a 75.8 majority going into the wrong way.
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> It is not reasonable to believe the underlying desire there is to make an attack
> French moral rights. Please try to be accurate and stop making such spurious
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> Birgitte SB

A vote is an expression of will. If people are so confused in their
heads that their vote does not reflect what they want, it is a
problem.