On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > <cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think it is useful to note that even in countries where > > moral rights are inalienable, there is a requirement of > > "originality" and "creative effort". > <snip> > > It is not strictly true that all countries require "creativity", some > jurisdictions (notably the UK) tend to use copyright to protect the > expenditure of effort involved regardless of whether the work is > creative. In other words, the rights follow from the fact that > someone expended time and effort in creating the publication, and do > not necessarily require that the publication contains an original > creative expression. > Isn't this just an economic right which can be waived or traded in a broad range of circumstances, though? The individual workers who collected names for the phone book or fixed the typos therein don't get their names listed as "authors", do they? _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
