TO THE QUESTION OF THE CLASSIFICATION OF COPYRIGHT CONTRACTS
О. І. Яблокова · Constitutional State · 2019
The article discusses issues related to the classifi cation of copyright agreements. First of all, attention is drawn to the fact that copyright agreements are included in the system of civil contracts. Therefore, copyright treaties are inherent signs of civil contracts. The author studies the problems of classifi cation according to various criteria, which allow to determine in general the place of copyright agreements in the system of agreements on the disposal of property rights of authors. Various ways of distinguishing classifi cations of copyright treaties are considered. The criteria for the classifi cation of copyright treaties include: the type of work, the method of using the work, is the work complete or must be created. In addition, questions are being considered about the possibility of classifying copyright treaties for accepting «dichotomy». The article examines the issue of classifi cation of copyright treaties by subject composition. In this case, attention is drawn to the fact that in one case the party under the author’s contract will be the original subject (the author), and in other cases the derivative subject (the person to whom exclusive rights have been transferred). It is also proposed to classify copyright agreements depending on the purpose of the copyright agreement. One of the most important goals of the copyright agreement is to bring the work to the attention of a wide range of people.