1. Signature means to sign your name on the letters, documents and manuscripts of a book, and also means to write the author's name on it when it is published. In our daily life, we often encounter the situation that we need to sign, and we should also take the signature seriously. When signing a contract, we can sometimes sign other names, such as other people's names, but we must pay attention to the authorization of the owner of the name, otherwise the behavior is suspected of "forgery".

Article 10 of the Copyright Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Copyright includes the following personal rights and property rights:

(a) the right to publish, that is, the right to decide whether the work is open;

(2) the right of signature, that is, the right to indicate the identity of the author and sign his name on the work;

(3) the right to modify, that is, the right to modify or authorize others to modify a work;

(four) the right to protect the integrity of the work, that is, the right to protect the work from distortion and tampering;

(5) the right of reproduction, that is, the right to make one or more copies of a work by means of printing, photocopying, rubbing, audio recording, video recording, copying, remaking and digitization; (6) the right of distribution, that is, the right to provide the original or duplicate of a work to the public by way of sale or gift;

(seven) the right to rent, that is, the right to temporarily license others to use the original or copy of audio-visual works and computer software, except that computer software is not the main object of rent;

(8) The right to exhibit, that is, the right to publicly display the original or duplicate of an artistic work or photographic work;

(nine) the right to perform, that is, the right to publicly perform a work and publicly broadcast the performance of a work in various ways.

Second, the relevant provisions of the right of signature

1, the right to decide whether to sign or not.

Because the right of signature is the author's right to disclose the relationship between his right of signature and his work, the author can choose to disclose his right of signature or not to disclose his work. Deciding to be public, you can sign your real name or other names known to the public) Deciding not to be public, you can sign a pseudonym or not. It's also called anonymity if you don't sign it. Anonymity does not mean that the author gives up or has no right of authorship. Anonymity is also a way to exercise the right to sign, or the author's punishment for the right to sign.

2. The right to decide the signature method

That is, the right to choose your real name, pen name, alias or pen name. The choice of signature method often reflects the author's choice to disclose or conceal the author's identity and the corresponding degree. His real name or pen name is used to disclose his authorship. Using other names that few people know or don't know is often to partially or completely conceal his authorship.

3, the right to sign instructions

If a work is published under signature, when it is publicly used by others in various forms such as publication, broadcasting and adaptation, the signature shall be indicated. A person's name may have many (generalized), and often only one signature is a work. Pointing out other names when using a work may just go against the author's original intention. Therefore, from the essence of the right of signature, when using his works in public, he can accurately point out the names signed on his works only without the special consent of the author in advance.