What you are describing is the view of copyright set down in the US Constitution, but it doesn't necessarily apply to the rest of the world. In many countries, copyright is strongly bound up with the author's moral rights.
What you are describing is the view of copyright set down in the US Constitution, but it doesn't necessarily apply to the rest of the world. In many countries, copyright is strongly bound up with the author's moral rights.
Who gets to define those moral rights?
Legislation. There is a whole Wikipedia article about moral rights if you want to educate yourself.
Meta: the point of this site is conversation. You don't have to respond. With an open question like this is probably best to assume the asker means "who #in your opinion# gets too define those rights".
Also, yes legislative bodies. But in eg USA that means a corp like Disney pays to draft the law and pays legislators to vote for it.
On a site like this that is very American-centric, where moral rights are not as known a thing as in other countries due to different legal traditions, it was reasonable to assume the OP was unaware that moral rights are a clearly defined concept in legislation already, not something vague and up in the air. If the OP wants to formulate their question more clearly, they can.