Your music is your intellectual property. We explore the rights guaranteed by law, how to receive fair compensation, and how to protect your creativity from unauthorized use.
Your music is your strength. It can inspire, change moods, and even lives. But for your creativity to work for you, it's essential to ensure its protection. Copyright is more than just a formality; it's a guarantee of your recognition, fair reward, and control over your own songs. Create music that lives long, and ensure it is valued as yours!
Music as Intellectual Property
Music is not just about emotions and creativity; it is your intellectual property. It is important to remember that from the moment a song or music is created, you automatically acquire copyright and related rights. If you take your creativity seriously and want it to work for you, take care of its protection today.
What Rights Does the Law Guarantee?
Copyright provides you with two key categories of rights:
1. Moral Rights
These belong only to you and cannot be transferred:
- Right to be recognized as the author: Your name must be mentioned every time the work is used.
- Right to a name: The ability to choose how you want to be identified (real name, pseudonym, or anonymously).
- Right to the integrity of the work: No one has the right to change the work without your permission.
2. Economic Rights
These are the rights that allow you to receive rewards for any use of the music:
- Reproduction and Distribution: Control over copying and sales.
- Public Performance and Broadcasting: Use of music at concerts, on the radio, or on TV.
- Internet Placement: Streaming and digital platforms.
- Ability to Manage the Work: The right to permit or prohibit others from using it.
Related Rights
Separately, there are related rights—these are the rights of performers and phonogram producers. They protect the actual recording and performance of the song, ensuring a fair distribution of income among all participants in the music product creation process.
Legal Protection of Rights
There are many risks and ways your rights can be violated. Therefore, the law provides specific methods for their protection:
- Filing a Lawsuit: In civil or commercial court (depending on the parties involved in the dispute).
- Administrative and Criminal Liability: Provided for illegal reproduction or distribution of works on a large scale.
Protected creativity is your capital. SPILNA helps every author and artist become part of a transparent and protected music market in Ukraine.