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moral rights

noun

B2CEFR level
48/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

The author's personal rights to be identified as creator and to object to derogatory treatment of the work.

The author asserted her moral rights and objected to the mutilated adaptation.

Topic: Intellectual property in Legal English

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