Practice question
An author assigns economic rights. The assignee claims the assignment automatically extinguishes all the author’s moral rights. Which is correct?
- Moral rights exist independently of economic rights and their assignment, subject to applicable law
- All moral rights automatically disappear
- The assignee automatically becomes the original author
- Every attribution claim becomes impossible
- The work becomes ownerless
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1997/ra_8293_1997.html — RA 8293, sections 177 and 193–197
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2013/ra_10372_2013.html — RA 10372, section 17 amending section 198
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