Civil Protection of Rights to an Audiovisual Work

Student: Oleksyuk Andrej

Educational Programme: Jurisprudence (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2020

Audiovisual works is enshrined in the fourth part of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation as an object of copyright. The law also lists entities that have certain rights to this object. However, the status in which they are fixed does not quite reflect the reality. The accessibility of the process of creating audiovisual works makes them an object which any individual can create. This has led to the emergence of freelance experts on the video production market. In addition, the problem that arises from the development of digital technology is the increase in technical capabilities for copyright infringers. This work aims to study the persons that can have rights to an audiovisual work, to study ways to protect the rights to audiovisual works, and to analyze the need to introduce new methods that correspond to the level of development of information technologies.

Full text (added April 30, 2020)

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