Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Berne Convention -- copyright or author-right?

From: Jan Velterop <openaccess[_at_]btinternet.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:30:00 -0400

"Moreover, moral rights can force people to say something nice about the authors' works even though they do not want to say something nice.

Who decides what is distorted and what is not distorted? Certainly, I do not want the authors to be the final arbitrator on this. Anybody else is fine, of course."

Joseph Pietro Riolo

Joseph Pietro Riolo seems to imply that the above misrepresentation of his words should be allowed if his copyright has been transferred. Freedom of speech. Which, according to him, Europe doesn't regard very highly. After all, to an American, Europe is 'liberal' (literally: freedom-inclined) which has virtually become to mean the opposite in the US. Distortion? Is it perhaps the same with the meaning of 'moral rights'?

JV

Joseph Pietro Riolo <josephpietrojeungriolo[_at_]gmail.com> wrote: On 4/3/06, Karl-Erik Tallmo 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

Number of days left until 1-1-2019 when all knowledge of 1923 in the land of the U.S.A. will be freed from their copyright owners' prisons: 4,655

Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain.

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