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Business Law Assignment : Abigail

   

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Running head: BUSINESS LAWBUSINESS LAWName of the StudentName of the University
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1BUSINESS LAWAnswer One:In Canada the Moral Rights are protected under the Copyright Act. Such Moral Rightscan be defined as the Author’s rights to association, integrity and attribution of a particularwork. However moral rights are to be differentiated from economic rights of an author for aparticular work. It is to be mentioned that moral rights exist in a particular work as thereflection of the personality of the author (www.canada.ca., 2018) Economic rights on theother hand allow the author of a particular work to gain economic benefit from the particularwork. The author for can retain moral rights of a particular work as long as the copyright ofthe particular work is retained by the author. An author can retain moral the rights for aparticular ice of work even if the copyright is assigned or transferred to another party. Moralrights can only be waived by contracts and cannot be licensed or assigned. Sections 14.1,14.2, S17.1 and Section 17.2 of the Copyrights Act contains the definition of moral rights.Sections 28.1 and 28.2 of the aforementioned act contains the definition of infringement ofmoral rights. Infringement of Moral rights includes acts or omission which are contrary to themoral rights of a particular author. Section 34(2) of the aforementioned act containsprovisions of remedies for infringement of moral rights(Laws-lois.justice.gc.ca, 2018). Thusafter discussing the legal concept of moral rights it can be said that Abigail can continue toretain her moral right even after the selling the copyright of her work to Tom.Answer Two: It can be said in accordance with section 28.2 of the Canadian Copyrights act that anauthor has the right in reasonable circumstances to be associated with her work by name orunder a pseudonym (Laws-lois.justice.gc.ca, 2018). Thus, in this case it is Abigail’s right tobe associated with her work under a pseudonym.Answer Three:
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