Comment by jfim
6 days ago
Some countries have moral rights which are perpetual, and are meant to prevent works from being mutilated, defaced, misattributed, or otherwise could cause reputational damage to the author.
It's not unreasonable for an author to want their creation to be enjoyed as it was designed to be, but not torn apart to be reassembled in different ways.
Quick, burn Picasso's Las Meninas! Burn iitttt!!! Velazquez would not have approved, I can tell you that!! Of course he wouldn't have approved, everyone can tell.
/s
Seriously, you can't and should not want to stop others from creating derivative works of works that are in the public domain. Sure, some such will be horrible, so you ignore them and hope others do too. But some will be creative in ways you could not have imagined before seeing/hearing/experiencing them.