Moral Rights

Definition

Moral Rights examines moral rights within the broader domain of rights, consent, ownership, attribution and compensation in AI-mediated creative and cultural production.

Why this matters

Moral Rights can materially affect human agency, capability, belonging, livelihoods, culture, trust, resilience and long-term societal outcomes.

Research questions

Under which conditions does moral rights improve human and system outcomes, how do effects vary across populations and contexts, and what safeguards prevent dependency, exclusion, distortion or loss of agency?

Hypotheses

A transparent, participatory and human-directed approach to moral rights, with explicit safeguards and longitudinal evaluation, will improve consent validity; attribution accuracy; compensation fairness; representation quality; dispute rate; remedy success compared with opaque, automation-first or short-term approaches.

Proposed methods

legal and policy analysis; provenance audit; creator surveys; licensing experiments; rights-impact assessment; dispute and remedy review; literature and policy review; expert and affected-user interviews; reproducibility testing; methods adapted specifically to Moral Rights

Stakeholders and beneficiaries

creators; cultural custodians; communities; educators; researchers; publishers; platforms; collecting societies; libraries; archives; museums; regulators; funders