United States law granting certain rights to artists
For other uses of "VARA", see Vara (disambiguation).
The Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA), (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 101–650 title VI, 17 U.S.C. § 106A), is a United States law granting certain rights to artists.
VARA was the first federal copyright legislation to grant protection to moral rights. Under VARA, works of art that meet certain requirements afford their authors additional rights in the works, regardless of any subsequent physical ownership of the work itself, or regardless of who holds the copyright to the work. For instance, a painter may insist on proper attribution of their painting, and in some instances may sue the owner of the physical painting for destroying the painting even if the owner of the painting lawfully owned it.[1]
Although federal law had not acknowledged moral rights before this act, some state legislatures and judicial decisions created limited moral-rights protection. The Berne Convention required the protection of these rights by signatory states, and it was in response that the U.S. Congress passed the VARA.
^Grant, Daniel (31 August 2010). "When Creator and Owner Clash". Wall Street Journal.
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