On 4/3/06, Karl-Erik Tallmo <ketallmo[_at_]nisus.se> wrote:
>
> Moral rights are indeed about freedom of speech.
This sounds Orwellian to me.
> It should not be possible
> to force another person to say something he or she doesn't want to say.
But, moral rights can force people to be silent, preventing them from saying that the authors dislike. That is not freedom of speech.
Moreover, moral rights can force people to say only something nice about the authors' works even though they do not want to be limited to something nice.
> Since moral rights protect the integrity the work (and its creator) this
> means that someone can't republish for instance your text in a distorted way
> and still claim it is written by you.
Who decides what is distorted and what is not distorted? Certainly, I do not want the authors to be the final arbitrator on this.
Joseph Pietro Riolo
<josephpietrojeungriolo[_at_]gmail.com>
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Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Tue Apr 04 2006 - 07:30:02 GMT
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