As a post script to Mark's comment before Christmas about copyright, I
thought mailbase members might be interested in this:
Article 27 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1947) states that
'Everyone has the right to freely participate in the cultural life of the
community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its
benefits (sic).
Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material
interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of
which he (sic) is the author.'
What this means is that authors have moral rights of paternity (the right
to be identified as the author of a copyright work) and integrity (the
right to object to derogatory treatment of their work), and these rights
are also in the UK Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 and run
concurrently with copyright protection.
Any comments, particularly on the right of integrity and academic freedom
in disability studies?
Mairian
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Mairian Corker
Senior Research Fellow in Deaf and Disability Studies
University of Central Lancashire
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