The nature of moral rights in Turkish copyright law
Hasan Kadir Yılmaztekin · Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice · 2021
Since their inception as a legal ground for the protection of authors, five broad categories of moral rights can be identified: (i) the right of attribution-paternity (droit de paternité),1 (ii) the right of disclosure (droit de divulgation),2 (iii) the right of respect or right of integrity (droit à l’intégrité),3 (iv) the right of retraction (droit au retrait et droit au repentir),4 and (v) the right of access (droit d’accès).5 These rights are now widely recognized in varying degrees in 162 different jurisdictions throughout the world.6 Certain moral rights—the right of attribution and the right of integrity—have been given international recognition in Article 6bis of the Berne Convention.7 In 1996, for the first time, the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) introduced international protection for certain moral rights in favour of performers.8...