Copyright and related rights
Each manifestation of creative activity with individual character, determined in whichever way, irrespective of its value, purpose for what it was intended and way in which it is expressed (work) can be the subject of copyrights.Especially, the subjects of copyrights are:
1) works expressed in words, mathematical symbols, graphic signs (literary, journalistic, scientific, cartographic and computer programs);
2) plastic arts works;
3) photographic works;
4) violin-making works;
5) violin-making works;
6) architectural, architectural-urban and urban planning works;
7) musical and poetry-musical works;
8) stage, stage and musical, choreographic and pantomime works;
9) audio-visual (including film) works.
An author of a work is entitled to two kinds of rights:
- author’s personal rights;
- author’s economic rights.
The Office exercises care over a proper protection of all of an author’s rights. On behalf of the client we prepare warning letters to subjects possibly infringing copyrights and we participate in negotiations aiming at concluding agreements between the parties. Moreover, we act as agents in concluding license agreements and conveyances of author’s economic rights between parties.