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Inalienable Rights.
Inalienable Rights.
Posted Aug 25, 2005 15:42 UTC (Thu) by maderik (guest, #28840)In reply to: Inalienable Rights. by grantingram
Parent article: On the defense of piracy enablers
Inalienable only means that the right cannot be surrendered or transferred. It has nothing to do with the importance of the right -- or if these rights have been endowed by some Creator. Some countries/courts have found that artists' "moral rights" to works are in fact inalienable. However, even then moral rights usually have been discussed with respect to alteration, defacement, or destruction of a work and not mere usage.
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Inalienable Rights.
Posted Sep 1, 2005 20:49 UTC (Thu) by zakaelri (guest, #17928) [Link]
How would that bear on the example posed above, then? If I purchase a book, and then proceed to use it as toilet paper... Is that then defacement? What if I purchase, say, a picasso painting and do likewise? Does my purchase of that picasso come with some archaic form of an EULA whereby I can't do what I want with it?
These are but questions... I don't understand how these unalienable ('moral') rights work.