Moral rights

Posted Aug 14, 2009 16:47 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)
In reply to: Moral rights - no problem, AFAICT by coriordan
Parent article: The unending story of cdrtools

My understanding of moral rights is also that you can't give them up. That's their point. It's to put limits on how much a powerful publishing house can bully an individual author.

What kind of bullying do you think the law contemplates? Kidnapping the author's child? Offering the author so much money he can't refuse? Blacklisting the author with other publishers so he can't work?

Or maybe the point is just to protect an author from his own ignorance or foolishness.