> For UK authors, note that you can stick the following on your
> document:
>
> <Your name here> asserts the right to be identified as the author of
> this work, and claims the moral rights of paternity and integrity, in
> accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.
...
> Note that if you want these rights, you *must* put in a notice like
> the one above.
> [ I'm not a lawyer, but I've done quite a bit of reading about this
> stuff... Check any recently published book for an example of a
> legal claim notice like the above. ]
I'm no lawyer either. But I don't think you *must* put these in to
assert your rights. I suspect the Act says the author may assert his
rights and lawyers have decided that the only way to be sure that the
author is asserting their rights is to specifically say so. But I
would guess the courts haven't ruled on this, and my guess FWIW is that
they would probably rule that a mere statement of authorship asserts
the rights, just as copyright is also implicit.
It's just typical of lawyers to want to clutter things up with more and
more meaningless legal jargon.
-- simon <simon.kershaw@smallworld.co.uk> Smallworld Systems Ltd, Cambridge, England."Views expressed do not reflect the opinions/policies of Smallworld Systems Ltd"
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