Re: Moral Rights in Copyright

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Sara Pangbourne <sap1[_at_]ukc.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> I am currently researching the future of moral rights in
> copyright and would be interested to hear opinions on my
> research.
>
> Copyright in the UK is founded upon economic principles.
> Moral rights were incorporated as a result of the UK
> joining the Berne Convention and they have little actual
> impact for authors because they can be waivered so easily.
> In an increasingly technological age where multiple
> authorship is becoming more common it is likely that the
> use and effectiveness of moral rights will decline to
> become non existant.

I refer you to a paper entitled "Copyright Clearances and MoralRights" on the WWW Multimedia Law site: www.oikoumene.com/mmcpyrt_doubts.html

Exerpted from that paper:

The differences and uncertainty relating to moral rights are both a practical and legal problem in the digital world. The international harmonization of intellectual property laws should consider limiting their application in a way that provides business certainty for the deployment of multimedia products.

&-&-&-&-&-&-&-&-&-&-&-&-&-&-&-&-&-&-&-&-&-& Sandy J. Wong. . . . webmaster[_at_]oikoumene.com WWW Multimedia Law. . . www.oikoumene.com This communication is not intended as
legal advice and is for discussion purposes only.
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