Comments on: I Am User, Hear Me Roar http://www.coxesroost.net/journal/2005/03/18/i-am-user-hear-me-roar Asking the Stupid Questions since 1971 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:24:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Will Cox http://www.coxesroost.net/journal/2005/03/18/i-am-user-hear-me-roar#comment-1840 Will Cox Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:32:46 +0000 /?p=305#comment-1840 If I believed that moral rights in art existed, I would find again the fairly comprehensive overview of the subject that I found lo these many moons ago. But I don't. On the other hand, there are good manners and bad manners. The polite thing may be to respect the wishes of an author and ignore his maunderings, rather than trying to extract the pearls of wisdom from the surrounding pile of dung. If I believed that moral rights in art existed, I would find again the fairly comprehensive overview of the subject that I found lo these many moons ago. But I don’t.

On the other hand, there are good manners and bad manners. The polite thing may be to respect the wishes of an author and ignore his maunderings, rather than trying to extract the pearls of wisdom from the surrounding pile of dung.

]]> By: Phil Ringnalda http://www.coxesroost.net/journal/2005/03/18/i-am-user-hear-me-roar#comment-1839 Phil Ringnalda Fri, 18 Mar 2005 07:11:25 +0000 /?p=305#comment-1839 The moral rights thing, while not obviously applicable (well, unless you're Google and at risk of being sued in the UK and France), is the only aspect of the whole tiresome argument that's still holding my interest, though. Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot I can find online that goes beyond "Baby's First Three Paragraphs About Moral Rights." From the sound of it, though, it's only unique objects, like paintings and sculpture, where you the creator have any say about what happens in the privacy of someone's home; for just another of millions of identical copies of text, you only have a say about redistribution, so I expect that argument to simmer down after five or six years when people grasp that some bit-twiddling on my computer doesn't amount to a redistributed derivative work. The moral rights thing, while not obviously applicable (well, unless you’re Google and at risk of being sued in the UK and France), is the only aspect of the whole tiresome argument that’s still holding my interest, though. Unfortunately, there’s not a whole lot I can find online that goes beyond “Baby’s First Three Paragraphs About Moral Rights.” From the sound of it, though, it’s only unique objects, like paintings and sculpture, where you the creator have any say about what happens in the privacy of someone’s home; for just another of millions of identical copies of text, you only have a say about redistribution, so I expect that argument to simmer down after five or six years when people grasp that some bit-twiddling on my computer doesn’t amount to a redistributed derivative work.

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