It would be easy to answer these questions if we knew who owns the copyright to his work. Both the economic rights and moral rights he had in his writing. Who has the adaptation rights, the reproduction rights, the distribution rights, and the performance or display rights of the various works? On the aspect of moral rights in copyright, these are non-transferable and subsist while an author is alive and for 50 years after the author’s death. Binyavanga’s moral rights will preserve the integrity of his body of work and protect it from policing, appropriation, sanitisation or erasure.

Source: The Star May 08, 2021 03:56 UTC