From: Lesley Ellen Harris <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 19:06:06 -0400 A couple of points. First, moral rights cannot be waived in many European countries. Second, moral rights also exist in Canada and are quite protective of authors’ rights though they can be waived. One famous and easy-to-visualize moral rights infringement lawsuit in Canada surrounds the Michael Snow sculpture of geese attached to the ceiling of the Toronto Eaton Centre. In this case, the Eaton Centre tied red ribbons around the necks of the sixty geese in Flight Stop as a Christmas decoration. The artist, Michael Snow, was not aware of this alteration to his work nor did he consent to it. Snow went to court and won. Click here for an article on moral rights in Canadian Copyright Law. http://vps7961.inmotionhosting.com/~copyrightlaws/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Moral-rights-for-LawNow.pdf Lesley Lesley Ellen Harris Copyrightlaws.com On Jun 10, 2015, at 6:29 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: John Cox <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:29:54 +0100 Just a word of clarification on moral rights and the CC licences. 'Moral rights' are part of copyright law throughout the European Union, and in many other jurisdictions. The USA is in a minority in not providing for moral rights - except for certain categories of photography and fine art, as Sandy points out. Moral rights are additional to what we now call the 'economic rights' enshrined in copyright. They are designed to protect the author. Principally they are: a. attribution is the right of an author of a work to be identified as such with any edition of the work. b. integrity is the right of an author to object to ‘derogatory’ treatment of a work. That means any distortion or any other treatment that damages its meaning and/or the author's reputation. Moral rights are personal to the author. They cannot be assigned to someone else - e.g. to a publisher. They can ONLY be waived by the author in writing. So a CC licence put out by a publisher purporting to waive an author's moral rights simply has no effect, which is why the CC licence does not make provision for them. John Cox Rookwood, Bradden TOWCESTER Northants NN12 8ED United Kingdom E-mail: [log in to unmask]