The set of exclusive rights given to the creator of an original work. It can be divided into two branches: moral rights, which recognize the authorship of the work and ensure the respect and integrity of the work; and property rights, which confer a monopoly of economic benefit from the work for a variable length of time at the end of which the work enters the public domain.
As a branch of law, French copyright law is one of the essential elements of intellectual property as well as literary and artistic property which also includes related rights.
Moral right is the creator’s right to be respected, independent of the proprietary rights of copyright. It is applied differently depending on the country, which can confer on it an inalienable power not subject to statutory limitations. The Berne Convention describes this right.
The right of authorship enables the author to be identified and to claim possession of his or her work.
Proprietary is the set of rights and obligations of a legal entity. It is therefore the set of outside assets - inanimate or even animate things (vegetal, animal), fixed or variable, corporal or non-corporal - which belong to a physical person or legal entity. Moreover, it includes both current and future assets
Intellectual property is the set of exclusive rights recognized to creations of the mind. Its first branch is literary and artistic property which applies to works of the mind and is composed of droits d’auteur, copyright and related rights. The second branch of intellectual property is industrial property. This includes, on the one hand, practical creations such as invention patents and plant variety certificates and, on the other hand, distinctive signs such as the commercial brand, domain name and appellation controlée for wine.
Copyright, often indicated by the official symbol ©, gives, in common law jurisdictions, the physical person or legal entity and creator of an original work a set of exclusive rights. It designates, therefore, all of the laws in force namely in the Commonwealth and the United States; and differs from the droits d’auteur applied in civil law jurisdictions (such as France and Belgium). While the two bodies of law appear similar in form thanks to the international harmonization generated by the Berne Convention, they differ markedly in content. Copyright is based on more of an economic logic and accords a limited moral right, whereas droits d’auteur ensures a strong moral right based on the relationship between the author and his or her work;
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