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https://doi.org/10.22364/juzk.83.19 | 180-187 | PDF

Autora personisko tiesību pārejas problēmjautājumi Latvijā

Points at Issue in Transfer of Author’s Moral Rights in Latvia

Sintija Zalāne, Mg. iur.
Latvijas Universitātes Juridiskās fakultātes PhD pretendente

Summary
According to the Copyright Law, an author’s moral rights are non-transferable during their lifetime. After the author’s death, only the right to disclose the work passes to the heirs. The remaining moral rights do not pass to the heirs – they can only protect these rights but not enforce them (for example, heirs cannot revoke a work that was disclosed during the author’s lifetime, though they can take action if the author’s moral rights are infringed). The legislator has deliberately limited the transferability of these rights by giving heirs solely the right to protect their moral rights, without conferring full powers to exercise them. Consequently, the heirs’ rights concerning the author’s non-transferable moral rights is restricted to their protection, not their active exercise.

Atslēgvārdi: autortiesības, autora personiskās tiesības, Autortiesību likums, mantinieki, tiesību pāreja

Keywords: copyright, moral rights of the author, Copyright Law, heirs, transfer of rights

Indivīds, tiesības un tiesas: tiesību nozaru perspektīva. Latvijas Universitātes 83. starptautiskās zinātniskās konferences tiesību zinātnes rakstu krājums = Individual, Law, and Courts: Perspectives of Legal Areas. Legal Science Proceedings of the 83^rd International Scientific Conference of the University of Latvia. Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais apgāds, 2025. 502 lpp.