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The California Resale Royalty Act: Droit De [Not So] Suite, Emily Eschenbach Barker

Emily Eschenbach Barker

It is a generally accepted principal that an artist owns certain rights to exploit the economic value of his works. In the United States an artist’s rights are protected by various provisions of the federal copyright laws. These pecuniary rights exist largely in the same form across the globe, however, some countries, and now the state of California, have begun to recognize personal rights of artists in their work. These moral rights, or droit moral, are retained by the artist even after a work is sold. The particular moral right that my manuscript is concerned with is the droit de …