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You Can't Take It With You When You Die... Or Can You?: A Comparative Study Of Post-Mortem Moral Rights Statutes From Israel, France, And The United States, Galia Aharoni

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Moral rights – including the rights to attribution, integrity, and dissemination – is a sticky, controversial subject even standing on its own. Questions concerning the duration of these rights seem to compound the issue even further: If moral rights protection stems from a desire to protect the author’s intrinsic relationship with the work, when should the protection stop? Upon his death? Upon the expiration of the work’s copyright? …Never? Such questions become even more pressing when a country – especially a self-acknowledged “developing” country such as Israel – enacts a moral rights law of its own, and when consequently no …