THE AUTHOR'S RIGHT TO REMUNERATION FOR THE CONTRACTUAL DISPOSAL OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS: PROSPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT IN VIEW OF THE EU ACQUIS
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https://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2195/2023/1.125-11Keywords:
author's remuneration, copyright contract,, right to fair remuneration of the authorAbstract
The purpose of this study is to highlight the current problems of the author's right to remuneration for contractual use of a work. One of the tasks of the study is to develop practical recommendations for ensuring the author's right to remuneration for contractual use through the prism of justice, taking into account the EU acquis. The work is based on the methods of synthesis and analysis, comparative legal method and formal logical method.
The author's concept of fair remuneration of the author is proposed, which should be understood as a set of means for exercising the right to remuneration for contractual and non-contractual use of the work on favorable terms for the author. Fair remuneration shall be applied to the right of remuneration of the author for non-contractual use within the exceptions and limitations of economic rights, as well as for the contractual disposal of economic rights to a work, in which the author is the primal subject. The means of realization of fair remuneration include the form of author's remuneration and the terms of contracts that strengthen the position of the author. In the copyright law of Ukraine, the concept of fairness of author's remuneration as a general concept has a narrow meaning. The concept of fair remuneration in the copyright law of Ukraine applies exclusively to the non-contractual lawful use of works within the exceptions and limitations of economic rights, for which the payment of remuneration is provided on the basis of a direct indication of the law. It is proposed to extend the concept of fair remuneration not only to the non-contractual lawful use of works, but also to the contractual use of works, taking into account the proportionality of the author's participation in the income from the use of his works. Relevant amendments to the Law of Ukraine "On Copyright and Related Rights" are proposed to provide information on the amount of remuneration received, amendments to the contract in terms of the amount of remuneration in case of its disproportionately low size. It is proposed to determine the author's remuneration in contracts for the transfer of economic rights and license agreements primarily in the form of royalty, which is a percentage of the income from the use of the work
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