Re: copyright expiration as a spur to creativity

On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Madeleine Fix <fix.3[_at_]osu.edu> wrote:
>
> Moritz Roettinger <moritz.roettinger[_at_]dg23.cec.be> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Timothy Arnold-Moore <tja[_at_]mds.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > Could we ever get the Europeans with their moral rights tradition to
> > > participate?
> >
> > Seems to me difficult. Why don't the US (and the other copyright
> > approach countires) introduce more elements of the European moral
> > rights tradition into their legislation?
>
> Mr. Roettinger; could you illustrate the parameters of moral rights
> relating to intellectual property a bit more in depth? Do these rights
> pertain to artistic and/or other forms of creativity which are protected
> by copyright?

Jumping in self-referentially: Madeleine and others may want to take a look at

  Holderness M,
  'Moral Rights and Authors' Rights: The Keys to the Information Age',   1998 (1) The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT).   <http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/infosoc/98_1hold/>

Mike Holderness
http://www.poptel.org.uk/nuj/mike
<mch[_at_]cix.compulink.co.uk> Received on Wed Sep 02 1998 - 11:14:55 GMT