Re: Anonymous Copyright owners

On 01.04.97, Amalyah Keshet <akeshet[_at_]netvision.net.il> wrote:
>
> Ofer Schenker <oschenke[_at_]study.haifa.ac.il> wrote:
> >
> > I'm a law student from Israel and I'm doing a research on the
> > interaction between the constitutional right for anonymity and the
> > intellectual property rights. Traditionally we were used to think
> > that IP rights are derived from one's identity...(snip)
>
> I believe that this describes the moral right (droit moral), rather
> than copyright. Copyright is a property right, and the moral right is
> a right of personality, if I understand the distinction correctly.

The European contiental concept of copyright ("droit d'auteur") makes the moral rights an integrated part of copyright. The distinction you are suggesting does not hold under this understanding of copyright, but indicates some of the friction between Anglo-American and European (as embedded in the Berne Convention) concepts of copyright made more acute by international telecommunication networks, where the interlegal issues are still not sufficiently explored.

Jon Bing

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<jon.bing[_at_]jus.uio.no> Received on Sat Apr 05 1997 - 15:04:41 GMT