The moral rights of authors and performers : an international and comparative analysis / Elizabeth Adeney.
"This book is a comprehensive guide to the development and utilization of authorial moral rights across the key jursidictions of the English-speaking world and in France and Germany. In recent years, the copyright statutes of the common law countries have been expanded by the introduction ofpro...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Summary: | "This book is a comprehensive guide to the development and utilization of authorial moral rights across the key jursidictions of the English-speaking world and in France and Germany. In recent years, the copyright statutes of the common law countries have been expanded by the introduction ofprovisions dealing with purely authorial rights - moral rights. The book discusses the historical development of the rights in Europe, with particular reference to France and Germany, and shows the growth of moral rights theory and legislative coverage up to the late1930s. During the 1920s the moral rights of authors became the subject of internationalprotection, particularly through the operation of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. The book explores the adoption of moral rights into this and other international instruments, explaining the functions that moral rights were intended to perform. The author gives detailed accounts of the operation of moral rights in France and Germany today, addressing both statutory interpretation and doctrinal issues. The provision of case studies gives an impression of the rich jurisprudence associated with the rights in these countries. The book also contains a detailed discussion of the versions of moral rights that have become entrenched in Canada, the UK, the US and Australia, with each country considered independently. It deals separately with the introduction of the rights into each country and their operation andinterpretation by courts and commentators. Material on common law analogues to the rights is provided, which indicates alternative actions that practitioners might take. Problems of cross-jurisdictional legal proceedings (especially arising from technological transfer of information) are alsoaddressed, with moral rights protection elsewhere in the world summarised in tabular form."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | lx, 900 pages ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 799-832) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0199284741 9780199284740 |