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Moral rights
The concept of the ‘moral right’ was introduced by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Authors of copyright works have the right to be identified as such and the right not to have their works subjected to derogatory treatment, although this is subject to complex limitations and qualifications. A new right of privacy was introduced to limit the ways in which photographs commissioned for private and domestic purposes, for example wedding photographs, can be used.
