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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"moral rights"”.
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Moral Rights in Copyright Law: Personality, the Self, & the Author-Work Relation
Moral rights in copyright law are noneconomic rights that entitle the author to control how the author is divulged, modified, and attributed. They are based on the idea that each author alone stands in a special relation (“Relation A”) to her work by virtue of creating it. Despite the quite …
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Towards a theory of animal rights: Adventures in metaphysics and morals
… discussions on the metaphysical nature of rights. We have almost half a century of moral theory arguing for the moral rights of animals. Surprisingly, these two literatures have not intersected much. This leaves open whether the nature of rights could preclude the possibility of animal …
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Environmental Rights
… this thesis I address the claim that theories of moral rights are incompatible with environmental concerns. This claim is often made on the grounds that rights are too individualistic and human-centred. I attempt to answer this, not on the grounds that it misrepresents all theories of rights or …
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Early reasoning about moral obligations and rights
… should act toward others, and that this early moral reasoning is guided by at least four moral principles: fairness, harm avoidance, ingroup support and authority. For example, infants expect an individual to divide windfall resources equally between similar recipients (e.g., Buyukozer-Dawkins, …
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Culture-in-Action: A Membership Categorization Analysis of Doctor-Patient Interactions in New Zealand General Practice.
… of doctor and patient were demonstrated and the moral rights and obligations of being a patient and being a doctor were demonstrated by each part of this pair. Findings that were new and unique to the present study were the use of an Omnirelevant Device, healthcare, to both constrain and direct …
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Culture-in-Action: A Membership Categorization Analysis of Doctor-Patient Interactions in New Zealand General Practice
… of doctor and patient were demonstrated and the moral rights and obligations of being a patient and being a doctor were demonstrated by each part of this pair. Findings that were new and unique to the present study were the use of an Omnirelevant Device, healthcare, to both constrain and direct …
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Digital imaging: Creating new realities
… that these digital simulations raise: copyright, moral rights and artistic integrity.
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The environment and natural rights
… this intrinsic value is aesthetic rather than moral. Only beings that are specially endowed with certain capacities, like reflection and understanding, could be said, in the context of this work, to have intrinsic moral value in the sense of being moral agents. But as moral agents, we need to …
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Essays on Consent
… intentionally and directly gives another person moral or legal permission to perform an action. What follows is a brief outline of each of those essays. Essay One is titled ‘An Introduction to the Importance of Consentin Our Sex Lives’. In this essay, I explore three themes. The first is whether …
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B'Seder : the design of a social medium for Polish and Jewish communities
… collective memories, each with its claim to moral legitimacy, and each charged with fierce and sometimes vehement feelings." These contested histories are the source of tension and animosity between Poles and Jews to this day. Unlike the German-Jewish relationship, where "the moral rights and …
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Disability and citizenship: an emancipatory study of professionals' attitudes to disabled people
… concepts of citizenship, specifically those of moral rights, attitudes, difference, consumerism and risk.The emancipatory model within which the research was conducted involved an Advisory Group of disabled people who contributed to the planning and guiding of the research and the analysis of …
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Analysis and Reconstruction of Copyright Protection in Open Source Software
… the fifth chapter has constructed the moral rights regime to reconcile the contradictions between the current copyright law and open source software.</p>
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Positioning Rights and Duties for Parent Representation at the CAC for Special Education Table: A Result of CBPAR
… sustained action over time, practicing the rights of communication, bridging the discourse gap, building policy knowledge, and accessibility practices. Positioning Theory analysis identified the assignment of moral rights and duties as a means by which parents gained power and access. A …
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Towards a vegan jurisprudence : the need for a reorientation of human rights
… thinking about the theory and practice of human rights to accommodate the demands of vegans for basic moral rights for nonhuman animals. The work firstly outlines the ways in which the claims of vegans, under the right to freedom of thought and conscience, are largely unsupported by existing …
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Disability and citizenship: an emancipatory study of professionals' attitudes to disabled people
… concepts of citizenship, specifically those of moral rights, attitudes, difference, consumerism and risk.The emancipatory model within which the research was conducted involved an Advisory Group of disabled people who contributed to the planning and guiding of the research and the analysis of …
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Two approaches to human rights
Contemporary philosophy of human rights is dominated by two seemingly opposed approaches. This dissertation is concerned with the choice between them. The traditional approach to human rights is characterized by the belief that human rights are moral rights that all human beings possess simply in …
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Do we have a duty to prevent predation in the wild?
… focused a great deal on the harms that culpable moral agents cause animals, and our duties to prevent this. What is less clear is whether there is a duty to stop nonhuman animals from harming other creatures, considering that they lack moral agency. In this dissertation, I investigate whether we …
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Copyright Privileges, Intellectual Property and Image Ownership: The Role of Law in the Art of Renaissance Venice
… troubled that printed materials would propagate morally and religiously questionable material. As a result of these independent yet interrelated influences, the Council of Ten and Senate of Venice passed legislation to appease both parties. This judicial reform required all circulated prints to …
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Conceptualizing school based occupational therapy for Malta: enabling children’s participation in school occupations through collaboration in early years settings
… in an early years school setting. It adopts a rights-based approach that acknowledges the human and moral rights of all children to be educated; a strengths-based philosophy that moves away from an impairment focus, recognising the centrality of children, their occupations and the transactions …
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Persons, property and morality : a defence of political libertarianism
… adopts as its starting point the beliefs that moral truths can be known and that political philosophy is a branch of ethics. The author identifies three variants of libertarianism on the basis of their different treatments of the right to private property, which all three consider to be the …