| Abstract [eng] |
The protection of performers‘ rights is under the growing scrutiny of international and national legal societies attention. Despite this, the main legal regulation problems remain unsolved and it affect property interests of performers. The analysis of legal regulation reveals that the essential problems of the protection of perfomers rights related to violations of performers property interests are concerned to the following areas: contractual position of performers, the duration of performers rights protection, the protection of audiovisual performers, broadcasting and communication to the public of performances and remuneration for private copying. It is assumed that the greatest negative impact on the performers‘ property interests have the contractual problems, as performers in practise usually transfer all their exclusive property rights to producers for an overall lump sum. On the ground of the analysis made in this master work, it is identified that some of the above mentioned problems would be more effectively solved by improving national regulation (for example, contractual problems). The other problems of the protection of performers rights due to the specific use and dimension of performances - by harmonizing the regulation in the European Union. The analysis of the legal regulation of performers’ rights, main problems, possible solutions and initiatives reveal that the protection of performers’ rights tend to become stronger by admitting for performers new rights. According to such tendencies and ongoing international and national discussions and initiatives, it is assumed that above mentioned problems are going to be solved by changing international, regional and national regulation of performers’ rights. |
