Exercising my right to retract over all my contributions

[akarysbutagain]

Foreword

The French intellectual property code gives an inalienable right to authors to retract:

Nonobstant la cession de son droit d'exploitation, l'auteur, même postérieurement à la publication de son oeuvre, jouit d'un droit de repentir ou de retrait vis-à-vis du cessionnaire. Il ne peut toutefois exercer ce droit qu'à charge d'indemniser préalablement le cessionnaire du préjudice que ce repentir ou ce retrait peut lui causer. Lorsque, postérieurement à l'exercice de son droit de repentir ou de retrait, l'auteur décide de faire publier son oeuvre, il est tenu d'offrir par priorité ses droits d'exploitation au cessionnaire qu'il avait originairement choisi et aux conditions originairement déterminées.

- Article L121-4 - Code de la propriété intellectuelle

Request

I (@Akarys42 / @simpledemonn) would like to exercise my rights on all my applicable contributions, including but not limited to:

• RFC 0081: Active User Beacon (https://github.com/QuiltMC/rfcs/pull/81)
• RFC 0001: Modernize the RFC process (https://github.com/QuiltMC/rfcs/pull/80)
• RFC 0007: Reduce vote length to 3 days (https://github.com/QuiltMC/rfcs/pull/78)
• RFC 0072: Legal Team (https://github.com/QuiltMC/rfcs/pull/72)
• RFC 0062: Add a clause to call votes early (https://github.com/QuiltMC/rfcs/pull/76)
• RFC 0062: Quilt Community Collab (https://github.com/QuiltMC/rfcs/pull/65)
• RFC 0007: Update voting thresholds (https://github.com/QuiltMC/rfcs/pull/53)

Discussion

This right being inalieably granted to me, you may not oppose by any way to this request. Any previous license or agreement is null and void under the law. You do not possess any legal basis to continue using, reproducing, modifying or exploiting any of my work.

If this request is not followed, we will move for enforcement 14 days after this issue has been opened.

[gdude2002]

(This isn't legal advice, obviously.)

I'd suggest that the following PRs cannot reasonably be covered by your request:

• 80 - these appear to be minor edits done via collaborative process and thus not all the changes are yours, though personally the RFC setup is going at some point anyway, so who cares

• #78 (Retracted) - That's a two-word change resulting from a wide Community Team decision
• #76 (Retracted) - I had to rewrite practically your entire contribution

• 65 - I rewrote and reformatted your entire contribution and then built 5 more commits on top of it

• #53 (Retracted) - Much of this contribution actually removes text, much of the remaining contribution was replaced later, and the parts that weren't were small and trivial, AND it was mostly written via collaborative effort on Discord in a thread that's still accessible - But I guess you could have it squashed out if you like?

I'd thus support the removal of the following contributions in line with your request:

• #81 (removed)

• 72

I don't believe either of these RFCs are even in use anyway.

[OroArmor]

• RFC 0081: Active User Beacon  #81

In addition, https://github.com/QuiltMC/rfcs/blob/main/specification/0081-active-user-beacon.md was removed with https://github.com/QuiltMC/rfcs/pull/84

[akarysbutagain]

I accept to retract my request on #78, #76 and #53.

RFC 0007 and RFC 0062 are collaborative work as per article L113-2 of the same code, granting me the right to retract my contribution nonwithstanding any third party transformation to it, which are now made without any legal basis.

[gdude2002]

RFC 0007 and RFC 0062 are collaborative work as per article L113-2 of the same code, granting me the right to retract my contribution nonwithstanding any third party transformation to it, which are now made without any legal basis.

According to Article L113-3:

L'oeuvre de collaboration est la propriété commune des coauteurs.

Les coauteurs doivent exercer leurs droits d'un commun accord.

En cas de désaccord, il appartient à la juridiction civile de statuer.

Lorsque la participation de chacun des coauteurs relève de genres différents, chacun peut, sauf convention contraire, exploiter séparément sa contribution personnelle, sans toutefois porter préjudice à l'exploitation de l'oeuvre commune.

Bad machine translation:

The work of collaboration is the common property of the co-authors.

Co-authors must exercise their rights by mutual agreement.

In the event of disagreement, it is up to the civil court to decide.

When the participation of each of the co-authors falls into different genres, each may, unless otherwise agreed, exploit his or her personal contribution separately, without however prejudicing the exploitation of the joint work.

As I understand it, unless you were able to show that the other authors of the collaborative works (RFC 0007 and RFC 0062) agreed with your removal of a work they contributed to, you would need to head to a civil court with them to figure things out, at least according to the apparent wording above. However, my understanding of things is that everyone contributed with the expectation that the final published document would be the final result of a combination of all contributions to it.

Obviously, I'm not a lawyer here, and I can't give legal advice, but given this wording I don't really understand your response above.

[akarysbutagain]

My apologies, it appears I got some numbers mixed up. To be clear, I request the following:

• RFC 0072 Legal Team is deleted
• RFC 0062 Quilt Community Collab is deleted
• My changes made in #80 are reverted

I will quote the following case law:

la personne physique ou morale à l’initiative d’une œuvre collective est investie des droits de l’auteur sur cette œuvre et, notamment, des prérogatives du droit moral.

- Arrêt du 22 mars 2012 de la première chambre civile de la Cour de Cassation

It is quite clear I was initiating and overseeing those documents or changes, as they are stamped with my name and the history shows similarly. I am therefore vested with moral rights for these creations.

[gdude2002]

Ah I see, thanks for the clarification.

[OroArmor]

Followed in ca458de.