Derogatory treatment meaning

For more common film and TV terms, see: Film and TV glossary A–B, Film and TV glossary C–D, Film and TV glossary E–H, Film and TV glossary I–L, Film and TV glossary R–S, Film and TV glossary T–W. Meme An image, video, snippet of text, or similar item that satirises or amuses, typically spreading rapidly online, with users often adapting or varying it as they share it on. Mime Within copyright law, mime is treated as a form of dramatic work. Moral rights Under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988), authors are granted personal rights (moral rights) that sit alongside, but separate from, their economic rights. Whereas copyright concerns financial interests, moral rights protect the author’s public reputation and the integrity of the work linked to them. the right to be named as author or director (the right of paternity) the right to object to derogatory treatment of a work (the right of integrity) the right...

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note is no longer current and is not being updated. It was originally prepared for LexisAdvance® Practical Guidance Hong Kong. Rights and assertion Beyond copyright, other rights may subsist in a work, including: moral rights technological measures applied to computer programmes and other copyright works publication rights rights in performances artist’s resale right To be enforceable, moral rights must be asserted. Assertion can be made generally or for specified acts, and may accompany an assignment or a licence of copyright, or be effected by a signed instrument. Section 90 of the Copyright Ordinance (Cap 528) (CO) identifies who is treated as bound by such assertion. For works of joint authorship, each contributor must assert their own right. Comparable rules apply to films. Although a film is regarded as a joint work, only the director benefits from moral rights (CO, ss 12, 89, 99, 272C and 272J). Moral rights The entitlement to be...

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note is archived and is not maintained. It was originally prepared for LexisAdvance® Practical Guidance Singapore. Introduction to moral rights Emerging from civil law traditions, moral rights are a set of non-transferable rights typically forming part of the copyright bundle, intended to protect authors on ethical grounds. These rights are set out in Article 6bis of the Berne Convention (Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works), which, in substance, states that, independently of an author’s economic rights and even after those rights are assigned, the author retains the right to claim authorship and to oppose any distortion, alteration, or other derogatory treatment of the work that would harm the author’s honour or reputation. Rights within moral rights As identified in the Berne Convention, there are two principal rights encompassed within moral rights: Right of attribution — the author’s entitlement to be recognised as the creator of the work, ensuring that whenever the work is presented, the author...