Copyright

Intellectual property does not protect ideas as such, but only the original expression of the ideas (through copyright protection) or the application of the ideas (knowledge, information, in a useful production).

Among others, copyright regulations give the author the exclusive right to copy, market, lease copies of his/her work, as well as to disclose his/her work in public (for instance, to present, perform, broadcast, etc). As any other participant in economic transactions, author is in the position to appropriate economic gain from the results of his/her work.

Some forms of economic exploatation of author's work are, in fact, specialized economic activities including organizational, material and personal premises, and the author, as a rule, is not able to perform these activities. Therefore, the author authorizes so-called users of author's work (producers, publishers, broadcasting stations, theatres etc.) to do so.

The legal instrument through which the user of author's work acquires the right from the author to use certain author's work in a certain way, is an author's agreement. By entering author'sagreement, the author circulates individual author's property authorizations, claiming compensation from the user of work as a countervalue of property authorizations that the author assigned. In practice, the author does not generate revenues from direct economic use of his/her work but from the compensation he/she receives from the user of work according to the author's agreement. This is a legal mechanism by which social functions of copyright are performed: gratifying author for his/her work, encouraging author's creativity and thereby cultural development of the community.

The Agency provides specialized services to authors, i.e. right owners through its departments:

- Fine Art, Literary, Theatre and Film Rights Department;
- Science and Profession Department;
- Foreign Rights Department;
- Department for Administration of Industrial Property Rights;
- Department for Court and Administrative Representations in Individual and Collective Protection

In the  Fine Art, Literary, Theatre and Film Rights Department, you can get information on protection and administration of copyrights for the following authors' works:

- LITERARY WORKS

- publicist works, brochures, articles, reviews, encyclopedias, collections, anthologies and similar works,
- oral works: speeches, orations, lectures,
- translations of authors’ works,
- adaptation of authors’ works,
- edition of works which are authors’ works, according to their form choice and arrangements
- proofreading of authors’ works,
- interpretation of literary works,
- software, computer programs and databases.
- FINE ART
- paintings, drawings, sketches, sculptures etc.,
- architecture works,
- applied art and industrial creations,
- cartography works (geographic and topographic maps),
- plans, sketches, models,
- photography works,

- DIRECTION AND THEATRE DIRECTION
– dramatization, adaptation,
- screenplay, synopsis,
- recording of audio and visual materials,
- interpretation,
- libretto, music composing,
- choreography and pantomime,
- costume design, scenography,
- newspaper reports, other newspaper forms, commercial and other advertising,
- video and sound records, broadcasts, databases etc.

In case you chose us to be your legal representative and to conclude an author’s agreement in your name and for your account, please fill out and sign our Authorization Form and send it to us.
For any further information, please contact us at:

telephone/fax: +38111/3222-768
e-mail: knjizevnost@autorskaagencija.com
telephone/fax: +38111/3222-144
e-mail: likovno@autorskaagencija.com
telephone/fax: +38111/3222-768
e-mail: pozoriste@autorskaagencija.com

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