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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 1470938" data-attributes="member: 463">All Paizo had to do to comply with their moral (and, in theory, legal*) obligations was to email the author a copy of the changed article they intended to print.&nbsp; Then if he wanted, he could have disavowed it and had his name removed from the published version.&nbsp; That hardly seems too much to ask.&nbsp; *Supposedly the moral rights of the author are adequately protected under US common law(s), which is why there was no need for statutory incorporation of 6bis rights when the USA signed up to the Berne Convention on Copyright.Those of you who think owning a copyright gives you the right to do anything with a work are incorrect BTW, even in US law.&nbsp; Certainly in almost all other countries, where authors' 6bis rights are expressly recognised by statute, you&nbsp; can't treat an author's work derogatorily just because you've paid for the copyright; and certainly not while keeping his/her name on it.&nbsp; Disclaimer: I did my PhD on the Moral Rights of the Author.&nbsp; Sorry.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 1470938, member: 463"] All Paizo had to do to comply with their moral (and, in theory, legal*) obligations was to email the author a copy of the changed article they intended to print. Then if he wanted, he could have disavowed it and had his name removed from the published version. That hardly seems too much to ask. *Supposedly the moral rights of the author are adequately protected under US common law(s), which is why there was no need for statutory incorporation of 6bis rights when the USA signed up to the Berne Convention on Copyright. Those of you who think owning a copyright gives you the right to do anything with a work are incorrect BTW, even in US law. Certainly in almost all other countries, where authors' 6bis rights are expressly recognised by statute, you can't treat an author's work derogatorily just because you've paid for the copyright; and certainly not while keeping his/her name on it. Disclaimer: I did my PhD on the Moral Rights of the Author. Sorry. :) [/QUOTE]

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