CLAIMING, MARKETING, EXPLOITATION
Copyright gives the author of the copyrighted work protection from abuse and ensures that
- his moral interests (moral right) and
- the proceeds from the exploitation of his work (economic right) are respected.
Moral rights grant the author an exclusive right to their first publication, authorship acknowledgement, respect for their work and the right to repentance.
Economic rights protect the author with respect to his economic interests by giving the author an exclusive right to authorize or to prohibit the use of his work or copies of his work.
The work can be exploited:
- in the physical form (reproduction, distribution, letting),
- non-physical form (public performance, public transmission, public screening with phonograms and
- videograms, public display, broadcasting, broadcasting retransmission, secondary broadcasting) and
- in a modified form (processing, audio-visual adaptation).
In addition to absolute (exclusive) rights, the author enjoys so-called “other rights”, among others is the right to access and extradition, the right to resale, the right to public lending and the right to compensation for tone or visual recording or photocopying of their work.