The Right of Everyone to Benefit from the Protection of the Moral and Material Interests Resulting from any Scientific, Literary or Artistic Production of Which he or she is the Author

General Comment No. 17 (2005)

Adopted on 21 November 2005

published as an official United Nations document under the following symbol number: E/C.12/GC/17 (12 January 2006).

Table of Contents

I.   Introduction and Basic Premises
II.  Normative Content of Article 15, Paragraph 1 (C)
Elements of article 15, paragraph 1 (c)
“Author”
“Any scientific, literary or artistic production”
“Benefit from the protection”
“Moral interests”
“Material interests”
“Resulting”
Conditions for States parties’ compliance with article 15, paragraph 1 (c)
Special topics of broad application
Non discrimination and equal treatment
Limitations
III.   States Parties’ Obligations
General legal obligations
Specific legal obligations
Related obligations
International obligations
Core obligations 13
IV.  Violations 14
Violations of the obligation to respect 
Violations of the obligation to protect 
Violations of the obligation to fulfil
V.  Implementation at the National Level
National legislation
Indicators and benchmarks
Remedies and accountability
VI.  Obligations of Actors Other than States Parties