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The moral rights include the right of attribution, the right to have a work published anonymously or pseudonymously, and the right to the integrity of the work. [2] The preserving of the integrity of the work allows the author to object to alteration, distortion, or mutilation of the work that is "prejudicial to the author's honor or reputation ...
Case Citation Year Vote Classification Subject Matter Opinions Statute Interpreted Summary; New York Times Co. v. Tasini: 533 U.S. 483: 2001: 7–2: Substantive: Collective works
Monty Python's rights under their contract with the BBC had been violated, and in the end this was the basis of the decision in their favor. [2] The permission granted to broadcast the shows did not confer the right to edit the work, which had not been granted by the copyright holder of the scripts. [3]
An author has a right to protect the expressive content of his unpublished writings for the term of his copyright, and that right prevails over a claim of fair use under "ordinary circumstances" Anderson v. Stallone: 11 USPQ2D 1161: C.D. Cal 1989 Derivative works. Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid: 490 U.S. 730: 1989 Works for hire ...
In a case about author J. D. Salinger's unpublished letters, the Second Circuit held that the right of an author to control the way in which their work was first published took priority over the right of others to publish extracts or close paraphrases of the work under "fair use".
Interlego AG v Tyco Industries Inc [1989] "the Lego brick case" - This case established that not every minor alteration on an object amounts to a new copyright existence. There has to be some additional element of material alteration sufficient to make the work original. [ 15 ]
The case did not affect situations where the material being linked to is posted by the copyright holder or with the permission of the copyright holder. [4] This case did not raise the issue of transitivity, i.e. it is irrelevant whether the site that is being linked to contains any other questionable publications or links not related directly ...
The court reasoned that the reproduction right "is the exclusive right to embody, and to prevent others from embodying, the copyrighted work (or sound recording) in a new material object[.]" [6] Because it is physically impossible to transfer the original material object over the internet, "the embodiment of a digital music file on a new hard ...