Re: Moral Rights and reuse permission

On Mon, 28 Nov 1994, Paul Robinson wrote:
>
> > One possible way that the integrity right may be used is to
> > prevent parodies of works. For example, it is generally
> > accepted that if someone attempted to release that parody of
> > the Michael Jackson song (I forget who did it but it was
> > called "Eat It") under current UK legislation, the composer of
> > the original song would have been able to prevent its release
> > because it was a derogotary treatment even if his publisher
> > had granted a licence.
>
>
> It was "Wierd Al Yankovic" and - while I might be wrong - I was under
> the impression that he did have permission.

It was indeed Weird Al Yankovic, and he did indeed have Jackson's permission (in fact, Jackson provided Yankovic with the set used for the "Beat It" video, so that Yankovic could carry the parody over to the video).

But I think the point of the quoted poster is that, if the original author and the copyright holder had been two different entities, the original author apparently would have retained the right to object to the parody, despite having assigned the copyright to a third party from whom permission to make the derivative work had been obtained.

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