Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

moral right

(usu. pl.) Copyright. A right protecting a visual artist's work beyond the ordinary protections of copyright. 0 Moral rights include both integrity rights, which protect the work from changes that damage the artist's or the work's reputation, and attribution rights, which allow the artist to claim authorship of the work and to prevent the unlawful use of the author's name in reference to a modified version of the work. Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (17 USCA §§ 106A, 113).