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A musical box infringes author’s moral rights, says the French Cassation Court

The IPKat

After Trenet’s death, all his patrimony (including the moral rights to the songs) were inherited by his friend, Georges El Assidi. To do so, the company obtained a license from SACEM, a French collective management society that represents Editions Raoul Breton. PML is a company that manufactures hand crank musical boxes.

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Moral Rights in Copyright: Lin-Manuel Miranda sues Texas Church for unauthorized performances of “Hamilton”

IPilogue

The copyright issues that exist in this situation include: unauthorized streaming, unauthorized use of Hamilton content, unauthorized alterations to Hamilton content, and an infringement of an artist’s “moral right” to their copyrighted work. .

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My Concerns with the ‘Can’t Be Evil’ NFT Licenses

Plagiarism Today

Last month, a study published by The Galaxy examined the top 25 most valuable NFT projects and found that, despite many understanding that NFTs transferred either the copyright or the license in the original work, only 1 in 25 of those projects even attempted to do as such. Understanding the “Can’t Be Evil” Licenses.

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What moral rights looked like in the 12th century—the story of "Guide of the Perplexed"

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The basic mechanism of the modern author is regulating reproduction of the work (the subject matter of copyright) and preventing affronts to the work and the author's connection with it (the subject matter of moral rights). Picture on lower left by Notas de prensa and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5

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Can authors waive their right of attribution?

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Economic rights have been harmonised throughout the EU to a significant extent. Moral rights, however, have not (yet). While it appears to be easier to waive moral rights in common law countries, the continental European tradition is more focused on protecting the author’s personality rights, which encompass moral rights.

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The Risks of Dual Licensing in The Pioneering Landscape of Contemporary Open Source

Traverse Legal Blog

As more and more projects in these fields adopt open-source licensing, the legal complexities tied to these licenses are becoming increasingly relevant, with dual licensing being a case in point. Second, altering the license could alienate a project’s community, leading to forks or abandonment.

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Adele, Spotify and the right of integrity

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Also, is there a connection between this story and a possible infringement of the author's moral rights? Is the album per se, conceived as a particular sequence of songs, a work that is the result of the author's "free and creative choices" and thus deserving of the protection of the moral right of integrity?