Human rights originate as moral rights and their legitimacy is necessarily dependent upon the legitimacy of the concept of moral rights. Human rights are best thought of, therefore, as being both moral and legal rights. The legitimacy claims of human rights are tied to their status as moral rights.

Human rights are universal legal guarantees pro- tecting individuals and groups against actions and omissions that interfere with fundamental freedoms, entitlements and human dignity.

Universal values and legal guarantees that protect individuals against actions or omissions, primarily by government agents, that infringe on their fundamental freedoms, entitlements, and human dignity. Includes terrorist acts that transpire due to the guidance of the state or government against perceived enemies.

Money laundering A process whereby funds, obtained through illegal activities, are “cleansed.”

Moral rights are justified by moral standards that most people acknowledge, but which are not codified in law, and therefore have been interpreted differently by different people.

The Rights Approach focuses on respect for human dignity. This approach holds that our dignity is based on our ability to choose freely how we live our lives, and that we have a moral right to respect for our choices as free, equal, and rational people, and a moral duty to respect others in the same way.

No, moral rights are purely personal and cannot be exercised by companies, even if they are the first owners of the copyright in material as a result of their employees producing it in the course of their employment.

A specimen form of waiver by which the author of a copyright literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work, or the director of a copyright film, waives their rights to be identified as the author or director of the work in question and/or their right to object to derogatory treatment of the work.

Rights of the copyright owner

1. Right of Reproduction. This is the most prominent right which is acquired after the copyright protection.
2. Right to Distribute.
3. Right to make Derivative Works.
4. Right to Publicly Perform.
5. Right to Follow.
6. Right of Paternity.
7. Sui Generis Rights.
8. Private Copying.

In its most general sense, a fair use is any copying of copyrighted material done for a limited and “transformative” purpose, such as to comment upon, criticize, or parody a copyrighted work. Such uses can be done without permission from the copyright owner.