Analysis of the Copyright System Practical Procedure on the Moral Right

Abstract

Moral right is one of granted rights to author in literary and artistic property law. Unlike economic right which considers protection of financial and economic aspects of author's rights, the function of moral right is to protect author's Character creativity, immaterial aspects and social interests. Despite the attention of countries following copyright system to economic right and having utilitarian approach, necessities such as internal and international (like the results of accession to Berne Convention) requirements, compelled these countries including UK and US to accept moral right. However, this right in these countries has less important situation, more limited instances and time protection rather than countries following author's right system: for example, waiver of moral right in UK has been accepted extensively and the rights such as right of attribution and right of integrity are not applied about some works. Moral rights in Canada are limited into two rights of attribution and integrity and waiver of this right is allowed generally or partially. Australia has the most comprehensive statute on moral right, infringement and remedies about that. This research examines the causes of accepting moral right in copyright system through comparative study on some of countries following this system.

Keywords

• moral right
• author's right system
• copyright system
• common law system
• utilitarian approach