---
title: "Moral rights consent checklist"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/sports-and-entertainment-law/moral-rights-consent-checklist"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a39-moral-rights-consent-checklist"
area_id: "A39"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A39-D20261018-3"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-22"
---

# Moral rights consent checklist

> A checklist recording that a contributor has been told of the three moral rights, that those rights cannot be assigned, and that any consent is a separate document. It is not the consent.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/sports-and-entertainment-law/moral-rights-consent-checklist  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-22

Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt

## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [Sports & Entertainment Law](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/sports-and-entertainment-law.md)
- Jurisdictions: Australia
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-22
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-22 against the 2 authorities it cites, for Australia.

## When to use it

Use when a production is collecting moral-rights consents from a writer, director, producer, screenwriter or performer. Do not use the checklist as the consent, and do not add formalities the Attorney-General's Department page does not state.

## Used for these tasks

- [Prepare contributor moral-rights consents from the production template](https://ailawframework.com/practice/sports-and-entertainment-law/prepare-contributor-moral-rights-consents-from-the-production-template.md)

## How AI may be used

AI may list each contributor and which of the three rights they were told about. It must not draft the consent, a waiver, or a statement that the rights have been given up.

**AI may:**

- List contributors and the work they created, and mark that moral rights sit with them whether or not they own copyright
- Record that the three rights were explained in the words the department's page uses
- Separate an assignment of copyright, which the page says can be transferred, from moral rights, which cannot

**AI must not:**

- Must not draft a consent, a waiver, or a release of moral rights
- Must not invent a form of consent, a writing requirement, or a section number
- Must not say the department enforces copyright. The page says it does not
- Must not say a copyright notice is required. The page says it is not

**The lawyer checks:**

- The consent, if any, is the lawyer's document and is not generated from this checklist
- Film-makers covered here are producers, directors and screenwriters, as the page states, and performers are covered for live performance and for a sound recording of a performance
- An employer-ownership point is not assumed. The page says the creator, or sometimes their employer, obtains the economic rights
- No contributor is told they can assign their moral rights

## Authorities

- [Attorney-General's Department, Copyright owners (economic rights, the three moral rights, and that moral rights cannot be assigned or licensed)](https://www.ag.gov.au/rights-and-protections/copyright/copyright-owners)
- [Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), as linked from that page. The Act text was not opened, so no moral-rights section is cited.](https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1968A00063/latest/text)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/sports-and-entertainment-law/moral-rights-consent-checklist and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*