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16. COPYRIGHT IN NEWSPAPERS

The Federal Copyright Law recognizes this implicitly and expressly in favor of the real authors or creators in the strictest sense and the ancillary rights.

Examples are as follows:

?    The right to recognition of authorship: Article 2, Paragraphs 1, 13, 15, 16, 17 and 56.

?    The right to oppose any alteration or mutilation of the work.

?    The right to its integrity: Article 2, Paragraphs II, 5 and 43.

?    The right to oppose change of title, form and content of the work: Article 59, Paragraph 1.

?    The right to a pen name and anonymity: Articles 17 and 56.

?    The right to reconsideration: Articles 16 and 24

?    Characteristics of moral right: perpetuity, inalienability, inability to be subject to a statute of limitations and relinquishment : Article 39 regarding Paragraphs I and II of Article 29, Article 45.




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