On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:55:48PM +0100, Ken Brown wrote: > > - publication > > the creator can control if and how his work gets published. only he may > > cite from or describe his work in public as long as neither the work > > nor a description of it are published with his permission. > > (e.g. even the publisher can't leak stuff without the author's consent) > > This is basically copy right as already existed in England, & not one of > the moral rights.
IANAL, but this is not the same as the "regular" publication clause, because that one is still a seperate (the german copyright law has three parts - moral rights, economic rights and other rights. > > - defense against disfiguration (?) > > creator can fight against attacks on the integrity of his work, > > within limits. > > this is the complicated part. as I parse it, the intention was that > > if you, say, write a poem against communism and by some freak > > accident the communist party adopts it as their hymn, you can stop > > them from doing so (unless you enjoy the irony of it). > > I don't know about the German laws but this is not, I think, the case in > most other countries. Just borrowing a poem & using it somewhere else > would (at worst) count as parody, which is legally protected speech in > the US (& usually in England as well). > > I think the law is more intended for the Alan Smithee situation, where a > publisher (or record company, film studio, broadcaster, whatever) takes > a work and changes it so that the author thinks it makes them look bad, > and they don't want to be associated with it. yes, that is what I meant. except that the law as I read it does not require a change. I don't think parody would violate it. > PS in English these are "moral" rights - "morale" is borrowed from > French and means the mental state of an army :-) whoops. I mixed those up before. /me is not a native english speaker. :) -- New GPG Key issued (old key expired): http://web.lemuria.org/pubkey.html pub 1024D/2D7A04F5 2002-05-16 Tom Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = C731 64D1 4BCF 4C20 48A4 29B2 BF01 9FA1 2D7A 04F5
