| Abstract [eng] |
The topic of this thesis for a master’s degree is ,,The Key Aspects of Copyright and Related Rights Collective Management in a Musical Field”. The development of innovative technologies and the particularity of the internet have determined the changes in the use of music records: the new types of music records uses and the possibility for many persons from any country to get these records easily have emerged. Due to these changes copyright and related rights collective management societies operating in a musical field recently have faced some challenges. The aim of this thesis is to make the analysis of the key aspects of copyright and related rights collective management in a field of online music use, to reveal the collective rights management challenges caused by the internet and to evaluate the present collective rights management situation and the collective rights management reform initiated at European Union level. In the thesis after analyzing the collective rights management peculiarities and general questions of copyright and related rights protection these questions of copyright and related rights collective management in a field of online music use are analyzed: the cases of music use on the internet, the authors’, performers’ and record producers’ rights related to these music uses, the collective management of these rights, the influence of collective management societies reciprocal representation agreements over the licensing of musical pieces, performances and phonograms for their use on the internet and the European Commission initiative on the collective cross-border management of rights for legitimate online music services. The analysis is made by studying international law, European Union law, the law of the Republic of Lithuania, the works of scientists, special studies, the documents and agreements of collective management societies and other sources. For making the analysis the statistical, historical, descriptive, systemic, teleological, logical, comparative and linguistic methods are used. |
