Silent Storytellers

The BBC pays tribute to ghost-writers. These plucky characters order words into the mouths of celebrities, writing the autobiographies of the rich together with famous, together with sometimes fifty-fifty the human inwards the street. However, these unsung spectres produce non begrudge the credit for the stories to those that utilise them. The BBC reports on a conversation amongst Tom Watts, ghost-writer of David Beckham’s autobiography

‘He says: "I was merely delighted for him. It does non affair to me, I accept got a life to larn on with."
Like most ghost-writers Mr Watt, who is currently working on a paperback edition of the mass to include Beckham's hard months inwards Spain, insists the storey does non belong to him.
"Why should David accept a literary voice? I'm the writer. It's merely the need to larn things downwards on paper."’

To the IPKat, this seems similar the antithesis of the copyright ideal. Under copyright law, it’s the aspect that is granted protection together with non the persuasion or storey behind that expression. Moreover, he thinks that it would locomote foreign if ghost-writers who are together with then willing to denounce their part of the credit could assert their moral rights inwards this situation.
Ghost-writers here and here