Copyright for WMDD

Economic rights protect the creator's right to benefit financially from their work.

Creators can assign (permanently) or license (temporarily) their economic rights to another party. They can also waive (give up) these rights all together. The terms of these arrangements are usually set out in legally-binding contracts. 

Moral rights protect the creator's reputation. 

Creators cannot assign or license their moral rights to another party, but they can choose to waive these rights. 

There are three aspects to moral rights: 

1. Attribution: Protects the creator's right to be credit for their work 
2. Association: Protects the creator's right to not have their work associated with a particular product or cause (for example, a cigarette advertisement, or political party)
3. Integrity: Protects against damages to the creator's reputation

In Canada, moral rights apply to all works. In the United States, only visual artists have moral rights. 

According to Langara's Intellectual Property Policy, students own copyright in the works they create during the course of their studies.

Some departments ask students to sign release forms that allow the College to share their work for marketing purposes (for example, student projects featured on the Langara Fine Arts Program website). This is completely optional, and you may choose to sign or not. 

In the 1980s, Eaton Centre Mall in Toronto commissioned artist Michael Snow to create an installation of 60 Canada geese in flight (pictured below). 

During one holiday season, mall administration tied red bows around the birds' necks. Snow sued Eaton Centre for damage to his reputation as an artist (Integrity) and won.