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Collective Management Of Copyright And Neighboring Rights In Canada: An International Perspective, Daniel J. Gervais
Collective Management Of Copyright And Neighboring Rights In Canada: An International Perspective, Daniel J. Gervais
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
It is a generally held view that copyright in civil law countries is a child of the French Revolution and should be considered an inalienable right of the author, a human right in other words. In fact, it is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. Granted, in several cases the economic component of the right is transferred to, e.g., a publisher or a producer, but it remains, at source, a right of the author, the creator of the protected work (or object of a related right). By contrast, one often hears that, in common law jurisdictions, …