Ukraine Copyright | Related Rights

What ara Related Rights?

Related Rights means personal intellectual property rights to performances, phonograms, videograms, programs of broadcasting organizations.

The subject of related rights to performances or to phonograms or to videograms, to notify on their intellectual property rights, may put a special sign of protection of related rights ℗ (P in a cirlce), next to the name of the subject of property rights, the year of the first publication of the object of neighboring rights.

Relater Rights occur as a result of the following:

• performance;
• phonogram production / videogram production;
• of the first broadcast of the broadcasting organization's program.

Subjects of related rights:

• performer (primary subject of related performance rights), heirs of the performer and other natural or legal persons who acquired property rights to performance on the basis of a contract or law;
• producer of phonogram / videogram (primary subject of related rights to phonogram / videogram), heirs (successors) of producer of phonogram / videogram and other natural or legal persons who acquired property rights to phonogram / videogram on the basis of a contract or the law;
• broadcasting organization (primary subject of related rights to the program of the broadcasting organization), successors of the broadcasting organization and other natural or legal persons who acquired property rights to the program of the broadcasting organization on the basis of a contract or law.

Term of validity of related rights

No formalities are required for the emergence and exercise of related rights.

The right to performance is effective from the moment of performance. The term of validity for execution expires after 50 years.

The right to a phonogram / videogram is valid from the moment of production of the phonogram / videogram. The validity period expires after 50 years.

The right to a broadcasting organization program is effective from the moment of the first broadcast of the broadcasting organization program. The term of validity of intellectual property rights to the broadcasting organization's program expires after 50 years

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