On Fri, April 20, 2007 19:07, Birgitte SB wrote:
I wasn't meaning to pick on France, but I was completely certain what I was saying was true for France. Whereas I believe is it also true in Germany and most of the EU, I am not sure which juristictions allow these rights to waived.
In the UK you have to "assert" your moral rights at the outset, (eg. "The author(s) assert(s) their moral rights under Chapter IV of the copyrights designs and patents act 1988") as opposed to the 'automatic-ness' of copyright, but having asserted them you can then announce that you will not seek to enforce them, waive them entirely, etc. subsequently. This is why a television advert, for example, doesn't have to have a director/cinematographer/etc credit list on it. If you do not assert them in the UK then, sfaiaa/iana(c)l, they do not apply and cannot be asserted after the first publication.
Alison Wheeler