The Creative Commons licenses through moral rights provisions in french law

1. The Creative Creative Commons throug
The Commons licenses
moral rights provisions moral
licenses through in French law
rights provisions in French
law
BILETA 28th annual conference 2013
Alexandra Giannopoulou
BILETA 28th annual conference 2013
Alexandra Giannopoulou

2. REMIX
SHARING
“to build a layer of reasonable, flexible
copyright in the face of increasingly restrictive

4. License chooser interface

5. Version 4.0 ?

6. 70 jurisdictions

7. “ Droit moral ” or Moral
right(s)
• Perpetual
• Imprescriptible
• Inalienable
Moral rights are acquired with the creation of the
work by the author and refer only to the specific
work.

8. • Use of Berne Convention terminology
• Acknowledgement of the right of integrity

9. Berne Convention
• Attribution right
• Integrity right

10. Attribution right
L. 121-1 Code of Intellectual Property
The right to be attributed
L. 113-6 Code of Intellectual Property
The right to remain anonymous or use a pseudonym

11. Version 1.0
Attribution is an optional element
Version 2.0
Attribution becomes standard
Version 2.5
Option to attribute third parties (institutions, journals etc.)

12. Version 3.0 Attribution
clause

13. Version 4.0 Attribution
clause

14. Integrity right
• Actions harmful to the author’s honor
or reputation
• Actions harmful to the integrity of the
protected work
“must not distort, mutilate, modify or take other derogatory action in
relation to the Work which would be prejudicial to the Original Author’s

15. Authorization to
make modifications
Renunciation of
the integrity right ?

16. French Code of
Intellectual Property
• Publication right
• Withdrawal right

17. Publication right
L. 121-2 Code of Intellectual Prope
• Licenses that do not impose restrictions on the publication right of
subsequent authors
1. CC BY
2. CC BY-ND
3. CC BY-NC-ND
• Licenses that impose restrictions on the publication right of subsequent
authors
1. CC BY-NC
2. CC BY-NC--SA

18. Renowned clause for its purpose to
preserve the freedom of licensed
works
The author of the original work has the
right to pose contractual restrictions to the
exercise of moral rights of the author of a
subsequent work

19. Non- Commercial
The right of the author to pose
contractual restrictions to the
exercise of the publication right of
subsequent authors

20. Withdrawal right
• Right of revocation or withdrawal
• Right of “repentance” or alteration
Compensation required

21. Perpetual licenses
Termination in the licenses
Breach of contract
The licensor decides “to release the work under
different license terms or to stop distributing the work”.
Right of repentance : the author is entitled to make changes
to their own creations
Right of revocation :
Impossibility to trace and retract all copies
Compensation for all users and subsequent authors ?
Abusive use of the right of revocation

22. Mutual respect
Flexible interpretation Effort to be respective of moral ri
of moral rights

23. Thank you
Questions?

24. ALEXANDRA GIANNOPOULOU
alex.giannopoulou@gmail.com
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