A Comparative Study on Moral Rights of Literary and Artistic works Authors and Owners of Related Rights

Moral rights constitute legal and immaterial advantages related to the personality of authorś work. Many of international regulations and national laws recognize the moral rights for the copyright author; with the difference that some of them have provided permanent protection of the moral rights and another have provided the limited period for this protection. Some international conventions and agreements have not provided the moral rights for the related rights; also, the national laws noting these rights limited them to certain cases. In this article, we study the foundation of the moral rights and their position in Iranian copyright and related rights Acts, the draft of copyright and related rights Act, the national laws of some countries and the regulations of related conventions.