COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS ACT* - Uaipit.com

Chapter VI
MANAGEMENT AND ENFORCEMENT OF RIGHTS
Section I
General provisions
Article 142*
Author and agent
The author may personally manage his author's rights, or he can do so through an agent.
Article 143*
Individual and collective management of rights
Authors' rights may be managed singly (individually), that is separately for each copyright
work; or, when this Act so provides, they may be managed jointly (collectively), that is for a
number of works of several authors at the same time.
Article 144 *
Scope of agency
(1) Management of authors' rights through an agent includes:
1. representing authors in their legal transactions and relations with persons who use or
commission their works, including collection of royalties or other remunerations;
2. representing authors in legal proceedings before courts or other bodies, for the purpose of
protecting their authors' rights.
(2) When an author enforces his rights before a court or another State body through an agent,
who is a natural or legal person, such agent is entitled to claim a fee for his services and
reimbursement of expenses incurred in connection with these services according to the
agent’s schedule of fees, provided that he fulfils the conditions for the representation before
courts or other State bodies or, where the agent is a legal person, that an authorized
employee of such agent fulfils those conditions. Agent's schedule of fees is adopted by the
agent or an association of agents, and approved by the Minister of Justice.
Article 145
Related rights
Provisions of this Chapter relating to copyright, shall apply mutatis mutandis to related rights.