Copyright is a set of legal norms, whose object is to protect scientific, literary and artistic; in the subjective sense is a property and personal rights of the author to the work created by him. Moral rights of authors never expire and cannot be transferred to other persons, and property rights are transferable and heritable, but expire after a specified time.
Copyright law prohibits without permission shortcuts, modifications, translations, etc., guards against plagiarism.
Copyright law has been shaped in the nineteenth century, governed by an international agreement signed in Bern in 1866, so called. Berne Convention and the Geneva Conventions of 1952 universal (updated in 1971).
Organizations for collective management of copyright or related rights
Special organizations operating in the form of associations grouping authors, performers, producers or broadcasting organizations whose statutory objective is the collective management and protection of copyrights entrusted to them or related rights and the exercise of powers under the Law on Copyright and Related Rights (for example, charging the recording equipment and blank carriers used for fusing tracks).
Collecting societies are based on statutes and permit the minister of culture and art, which supervises their activities.
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