--KG wrote: > mtiller at ntlworld.com writes: > > Off topic question. What does it mean at the front of a book when > > is says "XXXX asserts the moral right to be identified as the > > author of this work"? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_right And for a bit more (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright ): While copyright is normally assigned or licensed to the publisher, authors generally retain their moral rights (although in some jurisdictions these can be excluded under contract). In most of Europe it is not possible for authors to assign their moral rights (unlike the copyright itself, which is regarded as an item of property which can be sold, licensed, lent, mortgaged or given like any other property). They can agree not to enforce them (and such terms are very common in contracts in Europe). *** There may also be a requirement for the author to 'assert' these moral rights before they can be enforced. In many books, for example, this is done on a page near the beginning, in amongst the British Library/Library of Congress data.