Moral Rights and Authors' Rights: The Keys to the Information Age

Authors' moral rights, because they are poorly incorporated into UK law, are often perceived as a deeply obscure subject. Where strongly implemented in accordance with the international law of the Berne Convention, however, they provide a necessary and ready-made legal framework for the authentication of works in the new media environment. Harmonisation of UK and Irish law with the mainstream of the European Union and full compliance with Berne is necessary, not least as a bulwark against the homogenisation of public expression and suppression of the individual voices of diverse authors by media corporations.