Moral Rights, Creativity, and Copyright Law

This book argues that moral rights provisions in copyright law rest on a misunderstanding, or romanticization, of the role of the author.

Sarah Hook is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at Western Sydney University, Australia.

1. Introduction 2. The Author-Work Bind 3. The Death of the Author and Contemporary Writing Practices 4. The History of Moral Rights 5. Examining the Benefits to a Right of Integrity 6. Curbing the Creative Commons 7. Conclusion: The Death of the Transformative Author