Copyright Law

Copyright is a branch of law that deals with the legal relationships between users and creators of so-called "artistic and literary works" with respect to those works. Creators may include, for example, authors, musicians, filmmakers, architects, urban planners, software developers, and others. Through copyright, the state grants authors certain exclusive rights to their work for a limited period of time. Copyright is a component of intellectual property.

Copyright does not protect thoughts or ideas themselves; it protects only specific works—the concrete expression of such ideas—in an objectively perceptible form. A copyrighted work is solely the unique result of an author's creative activity; a concept, news item, information, method, theory, formula, chart, table of physical constants, computer program output, and the like are not copyrighted works in and of themselves. In addition to copyright in the narrow sense, so-called related rights (neighboring rights) are also protected. These include the rights of performing artists to their performances, the rights of producers of audio and audiovisual recordings, broadcasting rights, and publishers' rights. Database protection is similarly regulated.

The team at Macek and Partners provides complete support for your contractual relationships, licensing, as well as the enforcement of copyright claims.