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Not "entirely without copyright". Once you create something the moral copyright is yours forever. What this means is that nobody else can claim they did it, ev
by HugoDaniel 10y ago
Not "entirely without copyright". Once you create something the moral copyright is yours forever.
What this means is that nobody else can claim they did it, even if its in the public domain.
I cannot claim i wrote the Shakespeare works even though they are in the public domain. He still has the moral copyright over them.
- icebraining 10y agoActually, in the US, you can!
- mthoms 10y agoIn order to prevent ambiguity "moral rights" is the term generally used for what you are calling "moral copyright" as I understand it. But you are correct, except with the note that because moral copyright rules vary by jurisdiction it's not necessarily "forever". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights
- vog 10y agoThis is only true for countries like Germany and France, where a more accurate translation would be "authors' rights law" or "creators' rights law", instead of "copyright law". In countries with an actual "copyright law" like GB and US, things are different. There may still be "moral rights", but not nearly as good we know it from Germany and France.