The Moral Rights of Authors and Artists

Mira T. Sundara Rajan is a Canadian expert on copyright law whose work has influenced legal developments around the world. She holds a DPhil in Law from Oxford University and acts as a consultant on complex copyright matters. Her past academic appointments include the Canada Research Chair in Intellectual Property Law at UBC, where she was also a tenured Associate Professor of Law, and a Professorship of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Glasgow, where she was also the director of the LL.M. program in 'Intellectual Property and the Digital Economy'. Mira is a regular visitor at leading universities in the United States, UK, Europe, the Far East, and India, a country with which she has a deep connection. Mira became involved in copyright as a result of the unique situation surrounding the works of Indian national poet C. Subramania Bharati (1882-1921), her great-grandfather. She is both an advocate for authors and artists, and an author and musician herself.

• 1: Introduction: A Unitary View of Copyright Law 2: Moral Rights: History of an Idea 3: Moral Rights in the International Copyright Regime: Article 6bis of the Berne Convention and Beyond 4: A Theory in Flux: The Evolution in Progress of Moral Rights 5: The Machine as Author: Moral Rights and Artificial Intelligence 6: More than Musicians: Music Copyright, Moral Rights, and Music in the Technological Environment 7: Authors and Auteurs: Copyright and Moral Rights in Film 8: The Master Hand: Moral Rights in the Visual Arts 9: Friends or Enemies: Moral Rights and Open Access 10: Conclusion: Moral Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence