Comments on: Who owns what – creative ownership’s terms and conditions https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/who-owns-what-creative-ownerships-terms-and-conditions/2006/11/30 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:12:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Crosbie Fitch https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/who-owns-what-creative-ownerships-terms-and-conditions/2006/11/30/comment-page-1#comment-9923 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:12:13 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=659#comment-9923 Moral rights are inalienable rights to privacy and truth. You can pretend to waive them, but you can’t actually do so (except according to exceedingly unethical law).

It is not a matter of giving credit, but being able to falsify credit.

No-one has a right to force anyone to give them credit, only a right to force anyone to be truthful in whatever credit they give (especially if they are involved).

If Bob submits something to MTV, MTV can publish it and say “based on material provided by one or more contributors to the MTV web site”. That’s fine. What MTV cannot say is “entirely the work of Jane, the CEO’s granddaughter”, nor can MTV publish the CEO’s work and misattribute it as “the work of some misbegotten pleb called Bob”.

MTV could pay Bob a lot of money to keep quiet, but they couldn’t actually contract him to keep quiet about the truth of the matter. He can always come back at some point and say, “Well, actually, it is/isn’t my work” – and he wouldn’t be obliged to refund MTV his hush money.

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