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The Most Moral Of Rights: The Right To Be Recognized As The Author Of One's Work, Jane C. Ginsburg
The Most Moral Of Rights: The Right To Be Recognized As The Author Of One's Work, Jane C. Ginsburg
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The U.S. Constitution authorizes Congress to secure for limited times the exclusive right of authors to their writings. Curiously, those rights, as enacted in our copyright laws, have not included a general right to be recognized as the author of one's writings. Yet, the interest in being identified with one's work is fundamental, whatever the conception of the philosophical or policy basis for copyright. The basic fairness of giving credit where it is due advances both the author-regarding and the public regarding aspects of copyright.
Most national copyright laws guarantee the right of attribution (or “paternity”); the leading international copyright …