[TAG] Apertium in 'The Guardian'

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Jimmy O'Regan (joregan at gmail.com):

> I think the main issue that the Welsh Language Board is likely to have
> is of not wishing modified lists to be misrepresented as being
> 'official'. We have a mechanism for annotating each entry with its
> author individually. My assumptions are - and I hope that you'll
> correct me if I'm wrong - that copyright law forbids the
> misrepresentation of your work as someone else's just as much as the
> opposite (for our use, that we mark modified versions of their work as
> such), and that, if someone attempts to extract only the WLB's terms,
> that the WLB's collection copyright, and thus their licence, is in
> effect, rather than ours (or is it safer to try to avoid that
> completely?)

In the UK, the right to be secure against misrepresentation of your work
as someone else's is part of what are called the 'moral rights' of
authors, which are secured by Parliamentary statutes, EU directives, and
provisions of the Berne Convention.

(I'm going to be lazy and not going to chase down specific legal
citations for you, in part because it's not a very controversial point
of law -- but you'd search for phrases like 'right of attribution' and
'moral rights'.