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Reputation

Intellectual Property Rights

Reputation

Reputation

Reputation, according to Black’s Law Dictionary, refers to the esteem in which a person is held by others.  Reputation appears under the umbrella of author’s moral rights protection. At the Brussels Revision Conference of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1971), preference was given to “honor” and “reputation,” found to be more objective concepts reflecting personal interests of the author, as opposed to “moral” or “spiritual interests,” which are wider concepts.  In the eventuality of harm, there is a difference between harm to the reputation and harm to the author’s moral or spiritual interests.  It is not enough that the author does not like what was done to her work; the action taken must also reflect badly on her in the public eye.