Re: [lp-ca-on] licenses

[Daniel Villarreal]

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On 04/08/2016 03:38 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> Daniel Villarreal quoted:
[From the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement]
>> `"Moral Rights Clause Waiver" means a waiver of the right to 
>> enforce, and an agreement not to assert, Section 4d of CC-BY-SA 
>> against the Fedora Community...["]
> 
> I had always thought that moral rights could not be waived in 
> Canada, but that was apparently changed in 1985[1].
> 
> Certainly, I'd object to any requirement to waive moral rights, and
> even to assign copyright. I've crossed out those clauses and 
> renegotiated contracts to ensure I retain copyright on any code I 
> create while doing SysAdmin work, because I want to reuse any
> tools I create in future work.

I've noticed some people writing below their signature "Without
prejudice," and "Without prejudice U.C.C. 1-207,"  the latter for down
south.

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Without+Prejudice

I suppose I should check out the Red Hat, Inc. legal mailing list
archives.

Note: None of this is legal advice.

> ... illustrates moral rights: ... sculpture suspended from the 
> ceiling depicting flying geese... one Christmas season 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]. ... 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).
> 
> --Bob, who is not a lawyer.

Thanks for giving the example,Bob.

> [1] http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-42/page-4.html#h-8 
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_v_Eaton_Centre_Ltd

Thanks for the cites, as well.

My wife was asking me when the next computer club-related meetings are
going on in KW area. From the LUG website, it looks like nothing's
going on until April 23rd.

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