The subject of my report is copyright and related rights.

Copyright and related rights are certainly an issue in this context.

Access to all categories of cultural material, including that which is protected by copyright and related rights will be another major problem.

The current protection for related rights of performers, which covers 50 years from recording, is therefore very short.

The limitations to copyright protection also apply to these related rights (art.

As such it retains interests in a large number of Broadway productions and various related rights.

Consequently, the internal market cannot be complete unless the management of copyright and related rights is addressed.

German copyright law already provides for similar "related rights" in relation to other protected objects.

Today's vote is of utmost importance for the future of copyright and related rights in the information society.

Related rights are independent of any authors' rights, as is made clear in the various treaties (Art.

The protection of performers is perhaps the strongest and most unified of the related rights.

'Intellectual property' means not just copyright, but copyright and related rights.

Performers and publishers of audio recordings enjoy "related rights".

The question of limitations on copyright and related rights is treated in more detail (but without amending Art.

As was said in the debate, there is a kind of tripod involved in relation to copyright and related rights.

The recommendation on the collective cross-border management of copyright and related rights for online music comes under the same dangerous concept.

There is no single definition of related rights, which vary much more widely in scope between different countries than authors' rights.

The limitations on related rights are of the same nature as limitations on copyright.

Member States may protect photographs which do not meet this criterion by sui generis related rights.

Articles 2-4 contain definitions of the exclusive rights granted to under copyright and related rights.

Related rights in civil law are similar to authors' rights, but are not connected with the work's actual author.

The association undertakes collective rights management for the copyright and related rights in video & audio works.

In case of any infringement upon the copyright or the related rights, the resulting losses shall be compensated.

Term of protection of copyright and related rights (debate)

However, on the very difficult issue of safeguarding and protecting copyright and related rights, it is probably not enough simply to establish the political will.