On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Mike Godwin <mnemonic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Anthony writes:
A legal right is recognized by law. A moral
right may not be.
This must be your own idiosyncratic application of the term "moral
right." In copyright, "moral rights" refers to inalienable legal
rights that are recognized in law. If you are in a jurisdiction that
does not recognize "moral rights," then you don't have them, by
definition.
In ethics, "A moral right is a morally justified claim. A legal right is a
legally justified claim. When one uses the term "right" without specifying
the nature of the justification, one usually means a moral right." (
http://www.onlineethics.org/CMS/glossary.aspx?letter=R)
Confusing, perhaps, since the term "moral rights" (almost always plural) has
another definition in copyright law.
Barring a
license to use my content in that way, sure. Just like a
film
director has a basis to demand "the last solo credit card before the
first
scene of the picture".
Excuse me? Film directors don't have any legal right to such a
"credit card" (I assume you mean "credit"). They may negotiate for
such a credit through contract, but they don't have it in the absence
of a contract.
In the absence of a contract, there wouldn't be a film. And no, I mean
"credit card", as in a type of "title card". It's film jargon,
derived no
doubt by the fact that they used to be printed on cards.