As best i can tell (not a copyright scholar) that is a generalized version of the French &quot;rights of the author&quot;.<p>While the English copyright only dealt with, well, copying, the French system dealt with things like how and when a play or musical piece could be performed.<p>This because they cared not just about the monetary angle, but about the reputation of the creator (like say if a politician the creator didn&#x27;t support wanted to use a song or similar).<p>The reason we see this pop up is that copyright was standardized across Europe with the Bern Convention. Later this was extended across the world (USA didn&#x27;t sign on until the 1980s, btw).<p>The french is also to thank for the whole &quot;life+X&quot; copyright duration...