Re: [lp-ca-on] licenses

[Stephen Paul Weber]

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>My favourite example that illustrates moral rights: In the Toronto
>Eatons Centre there's a sculpture suspended from the ceiling depicting
>flying geese coming in for a landing. During one Christmas season in
>the early 1980's the Eatons Centre decorated the geese in the
>sculpture. I'd heard that they hitched a sleigh to the geese and put a
>red nose on the front goose, but Wikipedia tells me it was only
>ribbons on their necks[2]. At any rate, the artist sued saying it
>damaged the integrity of the work and distorted the intent. He won,
>setting a precedent for the affirmation of an artist's moral rights
>(which was later watered down by that legislation from 1985).

I suppose a horrific case like this should not shock me, but it still does, 
every time.  How someone who made a sculpture can win a suit against someone 
he sold the sculputre to for doing something with said object baffles me...

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Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma
See <http://singpolyma.net> for how I prefer to be contacted
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