country. Authors' rights have two distinct components: the economic rights in the work and the moral rights of the author. The economic rights are a property...

United States, moral rights are not transferable, and end only with the life of the author. Authors may, however, waive their moral rights if this is done...

legislation to protect copyrights (but not authors' rights). The Copyright Act 1814 extended more rights for authors but did not protect British publications...

"authors' rights". Neighbouring rights is a more literal translation of the original French droits voisins.[1] Both authors' rights and related rights...

to the 1957 authors' rights laws, most works were protected for the duration of the author's life plus 50 years. The 1957 authors' rights laws were substantially...

performance rights organisations (PROs). As of 2024, 227 authors' societies from 116 countries are members of CISAC. Together, these authors' societies...

property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been forfeited, expressly waived, or may be inapplicable. Because no one holds the exclusive rights, anyone...

debates of the 1760s and 1770s over the extent to which authors and publishers of works also had rights deriving from the common law of property (Millar v...

Authors (SoA) is a United Kingdom trade union for professional writers, illustrators and literary translators, founded in 1884 to protect the rights and...

(exclusive rights to copy granted to distributors), and is more akin to authors' rights (exclusive rights to profit from one's work granted to authors). Court...

offices in Berlin and Munich. GEMA represents the usage rights stemming from authors' rights (e.g., mechanical licensing, broadcast licensing, synchronization...

Human rights are universally recognized moral principles or norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both national and...

Foucault argues in his essay "What is an author?" (1969) that all authors are writers, but not all writers are authors. He states that "a private letter may...

sometimes pay a well-regarded author for first access to a text for copying, but they had no exclusive rights to a work and authors were not normally paid anything...

Since its founding in 1912 as the Authors League of America, it has counted among its board members notable authors of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry...

reforms. Italian copyright law is based strongly on authors' rights. Exceptions to authors' exclusive rights are limited – there is no provision equivalent...

property rights; author's rights; minorities and access to culture, among others. The cultural rights movement has provoked attention to protect the rights of...

of works of authors from other parties to the convention at least as well as those of its own nationals. For example, French authors' rights law applies...

law (drept de autor) is defined by the Law No. 8/1996 on authors rights and related rights, as republished in 2018, which currently implements European...

667917°N 139.680222°E / 35.667917; 139.680222 The Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (社団法人日本音楽著作権協会, Shadanhōjin Nihon Ongaku...

to users. Two separate lawsuits, including one from three authors represented by the Authors Guild and another by Association of American Publishers, were...

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private...

Plant breeders' rights (PBR), also known as plant variety rights (PVR), are rights granted in certain places to the breeder of a new variety of plant that...

ownership" was established in 1999, in order to enrich the rights of authors. This means that authors, performers and phonogram producers can exercise their...

The Society of Authors and Writers' Guild of Great Britain. From its inception in 1977, ALCS has distributed over £650 million to authors, and in the financial...

Human rights in Romania are generally respected by the government. However, there have been concerns regarding allegations of police brutality, mistreatment...

In some countries these rights are known simply as copyright, while other countries distinguish them from authors' rights: in either case, their international...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights in the United States are among the most advanced in the world, with public opinion and jurisprudence...

Federal Law No. 9610 of 1998 (the Law of the authorial rights) confers database owners exclusive rights specifically for copying, distribution and translation...

downloads from the Internet. The members of mechanical rights societies are composers, authors and publishers. Founded on January 21, 1929, BIEM is based...