Copyright and related rights

Skubisz & Partners supports its Clients in copyright and related rights protection

  • Copyright is currently one of the most dynamically developing areas of law. In modern era there are no participants in economic life who do not deal with copyright. This area covers digital technologies, including computer programs and audiovisual works. The subjects of related rights, including radio and television broadcasts, phonograms and videograms .

  • Lawyers from Skubisz & Partners has an extensive experience in providing legal services in the field of copyright and related rights. In particular, it covers more and more frequently occurring problems of legal relations with the "foreign element", i.e. cases of using copyright in more than one country or concluding agreements between entities from different countries.

  • Skubisz & Partners provides comprehensive legal services to the entities representing authors (collective management societies),as well as to the authors , themselves, and what’s more, the publishers and producers.

Scope of services

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Legal opinions and expertise

Skubisz & Partners prepares legal opinions in the scope of: the fulfilment by the intangible asset of the prerequisites for recognition as a work or object of related rights, assessment of copyright infringement, including plagiarism and autoplagiarism, protection outside the borders of a specific country, duration of copyright, permitted public and private use.

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Agreements

On behalf of the Clients the Law Firm lawyers prepare: publishing agreements, agreements transferring copyrights property, agreements on creation of works, license agreements, joint rights agreements, agreements on management of copyrights. We offer assistance in the creation of founding agreements of commercial companies, which include the in-kind contribution of economic copyrights.

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Representation

We represent Clients in disputes concerning copyright and related rights before domestic and foreign courts and tribunals (including CJEU). We conduct mediation proceedings. Our Law Firm offers legal representation in proceedings concerning personal and economic copyrights.

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Training

We provide comprehensive training in the field of copyright law for entrepreneurs, cultural institutions covering the matter of use of works, permitted use, agreements in the field of copyright, related rights, exhaustion of law. The employees of the Law Firm have considerable experience in conducting trainings for the management staff of commercial companies, persons performing free professions related to copyright law.

Experience

We have worked inter alia on the following cases in which a considerable legal expertise was required:

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