Performers' Rights
| Författare: | Arnold Richard |
| Titel: | Performers' Rights |
| Upplaga: | 4 uppl. |
| Utgivningsår: | 2008 |
| Omfång: | 550 sid. |
| Förlag: | Sweet & Maxwell |
| ISBN: | 9781847037879 |
| Produkttyp: | Inbunden |
| Ämnesord: | Immaterialrätt |
Pris: 2382 SEK exkl. moms 
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 Performers' rights is an essential handbook for practitioners advising performers, their representatives, exploiters of performers' rights and their representatives. This new 4th edition provides an in-depth treatment on performers' statutory rights under Part II of the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act together with broad coverage of the legal position of performers more generally.- Provides an in-depth treatment of performers' statutory rights under Part II of the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act together with broad coverage of the legal position of performers more generally - Presents a historical look at performers rights in the UK - Goes into detail on the subsistence and duration of performers' rights - Covers a performer's right to equitable remuneration - Provides a detailed examination of the various ways in which a performers' rights can be infringed - Explains the permitted acts and defences in relation to potential infringements - Covers the process and procedure for enforcing performers' rights and recording rights - Explains the different remedies available when there has been an infringement on performers' rights, namely injunctions, damages or accounts of profits, delivery up, seizure and forfeiture - Features a new chapter on moral rights as established by the recent Performances (Moral Rights, etc.) Regulations 2006 - Provides an analysis of the situations in which criminal offences can occur, including the possible defences, how these are enforced and the possible penalties - Covers performers' contracts, including assignments of performers rights, licences of performers' rights, consent clauses and enforcement of performers' contracts - Considers breach of confidence, invasion of privacy, the right to control the use of one's image and defamation - Covers performers rights in other countries - Specifies which performers rights are covered under the Rome Convention, TRIPS Agreement and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty - Reproduces the relevant parts of legislation, rules, regulations, treaties, conventions and agreements - Details the rights which aren't covered by Part II of the amended Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988 with numerous case citations |