On 3 June 2013 the Commercial (Arbitrazh) court of Moscow decided a case over the protection of exclusive copyrights to the painting of artist Vladimir S. Lyubarov and recovered a compensation from the individual entrepreneur Rotbort Victor Motelievich for the violation of exclusive copyrights to the painting by artist Vladimir Lyubarov “Strawberry”.
MoreYou need to document a contract with the publisher to publish your work? They force unclear or disadvantageous terms upon you? You want to enter a commissioning contract (order a work or a software) but don’t know how to draft it? You need to enter a contract for alienation of exclusive right to a work? In all these instances our copyright law experts will help you to deal with all the details and intricacies and will draft all the necessary documents.
Copyright law protects authors of masterpieces and provides them exclusive rights to their original masterpieces for a certain period. A material protected by copyright belongs exclusively to its creator and only the creator has all rights to distribution, copying and publishing of his original masterpiece.
Copyrights are under protection on the territory of Russia and mainly include the following:
- exclusive right to a masterpiece;
- right of authorship;
- author’s right to the name;
- right to the integrity of the masterpiece;
- right to disclosure of the masterpiece.
Nowadays one of the most widespread violations of copyrights is an unauthorized (without a contract with the creator) use of literary works in the Internet, publishing in the press, oral quoting, public broadcast or public reading. Therefore, nowadays the most important issue for the author is protection of its copyrights to the given masterpiece and its use before it has been published.
RVS professionals have extensive experience in depositing masterpieces, protection of copyrights of authors: painters, writers, composers, photographers, sculptors, performers and other copyright owners. An exclusive right that allows you to permit or forbid other people using the result of intellectual activity (masterpiece) at your discretion, as a general rule, is under protection in case of its disclosure on the territory of the Russian Federation or if it is located in any objective form on the territory of the Russian Federation. It means that you enjoy an exclusive right to your masterpiece even if you have not yet published it, but have created it on a material medium.
As a rule, the issue as to how to register a copyright appears when the author is afraid that his masterpiece shall be illegally used by other persons without permission and payment of a fee, or if this has already happened. If you find yourself in such situation, please do not hesitate to call us. Our copyright law professionals will tell you everything about your rights and will help you to protect your rights should they have been violated.
References
-
Representing a major construction companies as plaintiff on a dispute
RVS attorneys successfully protected interests of a major construction company in a complicated dispute and recovered from the defendant a debt for a significant amount
More