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Moral rights definition

What does Moral rights mean? In legal practice, moral rights are the personal, non‑economic rights of authors, directors and performers to be credited for their work or performance and to object to harmful alterations or misattribution. In the UK (England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) they are set out in the copyright, designs and patents act 1988; in Ireland, in the copyright and Related Rights Act 2000. The core rights are: to be identified as author or film director (paternity), to object to derogatory treatment of a work (integrity), to prevent false attribution, and a limited privacy right for certain commissioned...

Singapore: moral rights absent from Copyright Act; partial protection via false attribution and potential defamation claims

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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 is credited accordingly.

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