Use in European Union Law
The term “authors’ rights” is used in European Union law to avoid ambiguity, in preference to the more usual translation of droit d’auteur etc. as “copyright”. The equivalent term in British and Irish law is “copyright (subsisting) in a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work”; the term in Maltese and Cypriot law is similar, except that dramatic works are treated as a subset of literary works.
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