At 12:59 09/11/2001 +, you wrote:
But EU law also has moral rights, which have no financial value and are
non-transferable, and these include the right of the author to be
identified as author of the work. I realise the US law is different, but
surely it cannot allow false attribution of
Not true in the UK or most European regimes. The author's moral rights will
have been infringed and in Continental Europe these are often inalienable
rights which cannot be signed away.
Graham Cornish
British Library
graham.corn...@bl.uk
-Original Message-
From: Peter D. Junger
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Richard Poynder wrote:
as a freelance journalist I can tell you that at least
one UK national newspaper sent out a form to its freelancers last year
asking them to, amongst other things, waive their moral rights -- the aim
being I believe to be able to build up their
At 11:47 12/11/2001 +, you wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Richard Poynder wrote:
as a freelance journalist I can tell you that at least
one UK national newspaper sent out a form to its freelancers last year
asking them to, amongst other things, waive their moral rights -- the aim
being I
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Richard Poynder wrote:
sh Journalists work for-fee (free-lance) or salary. They write their texts
sh as works for hire. Their texts are not author give-aways. For that reason,
sh they are in exactly the same category as the non-give-away books which
sh are likewise not
Stevan Harnad wrote:
On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 Arthur Smith apsm...@aps.org wrote:
According to Stevan scholarly publishing has no analogue
Incorrect. It is refereed research (journal article) publishing
that has no analogue.
Ok, substitute refereed research (journal article) in my previous
