Re: Moral rights (Was: copyright expiration as a spur to creativity)

On Tue, 01 Sep 1998, Pascal Kamina <pkamina[_at_]club-internet.fr> wrote:
>
> Just a remark to say that the concept that copyright is not
> transferrable inter vivos is a concept developed under German law, which
> is not shared by other "author's right" systems. For example under
> French law copyright (i.e. author's rights less moral rights) is freely
> transferrable (subject to mandatory rules regarding contracts and
> specific prohibitions, such as the prohibition of assignments of future
> works).

Well, this migut be a question of definition. Under German and Austrian law you may, of course, transfer the "exploitation rights, economic rights" ("Verwertungsrechte") by means of license. But you can't transfer the whole copyright including the moral rights.

Mortiz Roettinger
<moritz.roettinger[_at_]dg23.cec.be> Received on Wed Sep 02 1998 - 13:30:28 GMT