What are "moral rights"?
In addition to protecting their property rights, the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (the Act) also makes provision for creators’ moral rights.
Moral rights are designed to protect works as an expression of their author’s personality. As such they cannot be transferred to another person until after the author’s death. In the UK, an author can waive their moral rights, however.
Moral rights include “The Paternity (Attribution) Right”: that is, the right of a creator to be identified as the author of a work. They also include “The Integrity Right”: the right to object to any unauthorised distortion or changes to the work which would be prejudice an author’s honour or reputation.