[pp.int.general] copyright vs. "droit d'auteur"

[Per von Zweigbergk]

7 jan 2009 kl. 15.59 skrev Carlos Ayala Vargas:

> Anton Tamminen wrote:
>> Reinier Bakels wrote:
>>> PP should oppose people  with $€ signs in teir eyes, not artists  
>>> who want to protect their cultural values.
>> Business doesn't want to publish bad translations and it usually  
>> doesn't want to do that under the author's name, because that would  
>> be bad PR.
> I think you both think of commercial issues. What about the very  
> meaning of the intellectual works, e.g., books and music lyrics?


Yes, the meaning of commercial works can be distorted. And to great  
effect.

You mention mistranslation as a political tool. While this is  
possible, you're simply not going to be able to prevent stuff like  
this through copyright law. If a state wants to violate a law, it  
will. And with a functioning media and bloggers on the Internet, it  
would be impossible to get away with something like this in a free  
society.

In the end, it should not be the role of copyright law to prevent  
creation of these kinds of works, the problem is unauthorized  
attribution, not creating an unauthorized derivative work.

-- 
Per von Zweigbergk

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