Comparative study on protecting the work's name

The Protection of the works’ names have been considered with differences in two legal systems of the Common law and the Romani German. The base of this variances is the possibility of protecting the name of the work through copyright or the right of author. The differences are rooted in identifying the nature of the name. considering of the work’s name as an independent work or its inclusion as a part of the work can be considered as two theories about the nature of the work’s name. The present study examines the current status of Iran and some of the countries in the two legal systems in protecting of the work’s name. it also studies the nature of the work’s name, with the base of those theories. The identifying of the originality condition for the name of the work is the solution. It is also possible to protect the work’s name through the author's moral rights, with the focus on the integrity right of the work and the Paternity right of the work.