12 May 2022 |  From the friendly caves of Pixie Hollow.

 

 

So, you've heard of copyright, yeah? That's the right to copy something that exists. 

 

Copyright covers piracy, for example. Photocopying. Making recordings. Adaptations. Interventions. That type of thing.

 

But have you heard of moral rights?

 

Moral Rights are your right to be identified as an author of a work.

 

Moral Rights cover your right as an artist to protect your work.

 

Now, while you can assign rights to others in the form of 

you cannot assign moral rights.

 

But you can waive them.

 

This is the spooky grey area of ghostwriting that makes even seasoned IP lawyers scratch their heads.

 

If you waive your moral rights, then you have no recourse at any future point to contest the authorship of the work. So if you create something, and waive your rights, then (my understanding only, ok, I'm not a lawyer!) when that something Gets Huge, you're not entitled to a cut of anything coming your way.

 

What it does is it allows an author (say, you {{ subscriber.first_name or "darling one" }} to collaborate with a ghostwriter and legitimately claim the entirety of authorship rights.

 

Even though you don't own them.

 

Moral rights are kind of like your skin. You can waive your rights to your skin and let other people pierce it, tattoo it, do whatever they want with it. But you can't give it up and still exist.

 

Tomorrow I'll talk more about licensing.

 

These things are important for you to know about, should you ever want to work with a ghost. 

 

And if you do, then right now I have just two openings for ghostwriting clients from 1 July. Here's the deal:

1. It's expensive
2. You have to be willing to get dirty, to think, to feel
3. You have to be willing to bare everything about your life or business or methods or whatever it is
4. You have to remember it's a collaboration, not an abdication.

 

xx Leticia 'should've been a lawyer' Mooney

 

Please let me know what I can do for you.
 
Leticia Mooney is a consultant with decades of experience writing with and for people like you. Her company Brutal Pixie casts the kind of spells your customers love. Its services are oracles (communication strategy, CCX, audits, investigations, quality assurance), metamorphoses (training, mentoring, coaching, wargaming), and your stories in magick hands (ghostwriting, content writing, editorial support). Leticia is also the mother of an intelligent, engaging, and curious boy, who is named after a character created by J.R.R Tolkien.

 

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