Author’s and allied rights.

Not all that one owns appears in his ownership.

Leonid Suhorukov

We can offer you the following services:

1. Preliminary protective measures of created unpublished works.

1.1. Legal consulting on the possible preliminary author’s actions aimed at protection of created, previously unpublished works.

1.2. Registration of unpublished works with the purpose of provision of authorship evidence.

1.3. Depositing of unpublished works with the purpose of authorship evidence provision.

1.4. Notary provision of authorship evidence on unpublished works.

2. Co-authorship.

2.1 Legal consulting on the questions of relation between authors.

2.2 Co-authors’ agreement on the order of reward distribution for jointly created works between co-authors.

2.3 Co-authors’ agreement on the usage of jointly created works.

2.4 Mediation in the process of conflict settlement between co-authors.

3. Author’s contract. Rights transference.

3.1 Legal consulting on the questions of author’s contract formation.

3.2 Legal analysis of already formatted author’s contracts.

3.3 Drafting of author’s contract in accordance with client’s demands.

3.4 Mediation during conflict settlement between contract sides.

4. Contract on the cession of rights.

4.1 Legal consulting on the questions of formation of rights cession contract.

4.2 Legal analysis of already signed rights cession contract.

4.3 Drafting of the rights cession contract.

4.4 Mediation during conflict settlement between contract sides.

5. License contract on the cession of rights.

5.1 Legal consulting on the questions of license contract formation, types of license contract, essence of contact, legal effect of the license contract.

5.2 Legal analysis of already formed license contracts.

5.3 Drafting of license contract.

5.4 Mediation during conflict settlement between sides of license conflict.

6. Commissioning contract.

6.1 Legal consulting on the questions of commissioning contract formation.

6.2 Legal analysis of already formed commissioning contracts.

6.3 Drafting of commissioning contract.

6.4 Mediation during conflict settlement between commissioning contract sides.

7. Integral works, derivative works, audio-visual works.

7.1 Legal consulting on the questions of integral work creation. Author rights of complier.

7.2 Legal consulting on the questions of the creation of derivative works on the basis of already created works which are under copyright protection (stage version, arrangement etc ). Contract drafting on the work remaking, legal effect, possible variants of their usage.

7.3 Legal consulting on the questions of translation of other authors’ works which are under the copyright protection. Contract drafting on work translation, legal effect.

7.4 Legal consulting on the questions of creation of audio-visual works, inclusion into their structure audio-visual works of protected objects of intellectual property (piece of music, phonograms, photographic works etc)

8. Agreement on allied rights transfer.

8.1 Legal consulting on the question of allied rights transfer.

8.2 Legal analysis of already formed agreements.

8.3 Drafting of allied rights transfer agreement in accordance with client’s demands.

8.4 Mediation during conflict settlement between contract sides.

9. Collective direction of property rights of authors, singers, phonogram producers.

9.1 Legal consulting on the questions of formation of contract with the organization directing rights on the collective basis, mechanism of formation, sides of the contract, legal consequences, possible variants of cooperation, assistance in document filling. Information about companies providing collective direction of property rights in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.

10. Software.

10.1 Help in registration of software and information data bases.

10.2 Legal consulting on the questions of rights transfer for software and data base.

10.3 Legal consulting on the questions of relations between software and data base developers.

10.4 Legal consulting on the questions of legal protection of software and data base.

10.5 Legal consulting on the question of copyright protection on software, data base in the situation of illegal usage by strangers.

11. Copyright protection of the intellectual property objects in internet.

11.1 Legal regime of web-site posted in Internet.

11.2 Contract for web-site creation, web-site sale-purchase agreement, contract for sale-purchase of domain name.

11.3 Website content.

11.4 Illegal content copying and creation of websites “clones”.

11.5 Usage as website content objects of copyright and allied rights.

11.6 Usage in domain name means of individualizing (trade marks, trade names).

11.7 The usage of trade name in the domain name without owner’s permission.