Moral Rights Provisions of the Author in Iraqi Law

Abstract

The position of moral copyright occupies the agenda of the contemporary world in the twenty-first century; as these rights play an increasingly important role on the international level, as works of thought and intellectual property, especially the copyright of the author on his work, are now used and enjoyed by the inhabitants of all continents of the world; the problem of the study also arises in how to provide effective legal protection for intellectual property, to stimulate creative activity in humans and release creative energies; Ensuring the protection and care of this creativity must be represented by issuing many national and international legislations, which is known as copyright protection, and from where the importance of researching the provisions of the moral rights of the author in Iraqi law comes, and through the descriptive and analytical research method, the research came out with a set of results, including that the main problem when talking about the legal provisions of these moral rights is to determine who is proven to be the author in general, there is no doubt about the importance of this determination, given the material and moral privileges that accrue to the owner of this status that guarantee him the exercise of the powers granted to him by law, which leads to the protection of the work and its exploitation in the manner he desires, as the matter becomes more precise in the case of multiple authors of a single work - especially if one of them is a legal person, or the author is contracting with others in order to create the work, as the problem of who is the author may be raised in these special cases.