NDLI: The Valuation of Moral Rights: A Field Experiment

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The Valuation of Moral Rights: A Field Experiment

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Bechtold, Stefan Engel, Christoph
Copyright Year	2017
Description	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal U.S. intellectual property law is firmly rooted in utilitarian principles. Copyright law is viewed as a means to give proper monetary incentives to authors for their creative effort. Many European copyright systems pursue additional goals: Authors have the right to be named as author, to control alterations and to retract their work in case their artistic beliefs have changed. Protecting these “moral rights” might be justified by the preferences of typical authors. We present the first field experiment on moral rights revealing the true valuation of these rights by over 200 authors from 24 countries. A majority of authors are not willing to trade moral rights in the first place. They demand substantial prices in case they decide to trade. The differences between authors from the U.S. and Europe are small. These results call into question whether moral rights protection should differ across the Atlantic and whether a purely profit-based theory of copyright law is sufficient to capture the complex relationship between human behavior and creativity.
Related Links	http://www.coll.mpg.de/pdf_dat/2017_04online.pdf https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=2941499
ISSN	10914358
e-ISSN	15565068
DOI	10.2139/ssrn.2941499
Journal	SSRN Electronic Journal
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier BV
Publisher Date	2017-03-25
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Psychiatry and Mental Health

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