How to prevent infringement of musical works

Music is everywhere around us. In recent years, the number of cases of copyright infringement of musical works has increased significantly, but the methods of infringement of music copyright have remained basically unchanged. How can copyright owners prevent infringement of musical works and protect their legitimate rights and interests? The editor of Legal Savior Network has compiled the following content to answer your questions. I hope it will be helpful to you.

How to prevent infringement of musical works

Website companies should strengthen website operation and management. For example, we regularly clean up our own websites (including internal LANs). If we find that there is content on the website that has not been authorized by the legal rights holder (including unauthorized software, music, movies, and other works, etc.), we must promptly remove it and focus on removing inappropriate content. Content that complies with relevant national Internet management regulations.

It is necessary to review the copyright of self-operated website content (including internal LAN) and review the legality of the content of linked websites, and shall not Legally authorized software, music, movies, etc. are placed on self-operated websites, and links to websites that illegally contain unauthorized software and other content are not allowed.

For sound recordings that have a large number of visits to the enterprise's own website, a cooperation agreement should be signed with the International Phonographic Industry Association and the relevant domestic copyright agencies. In accordance with the provisions of the "Copyright Law" It stipulates unified payment of remuneration and attaches great importance to website link specifications and self-protection.

Works that have been published in newspapers or circulated on the Internet may not be reproduced unless the copyright owner declares or the network service provider uploading the work is entrusted by the copyright owner to declare. , except for excerpts, if the website reprints or excerpts, pays remuneration in accordance with regulations, and indicates the source, it does not constitute infringement.

The main ways to infringe music copyright

To bear infringement liability must be an infringement act, the infringement damages the result, there is a causal relationship between the act and the result, and the infringement is subjective It consists of four aspects including fault. From the perspective of infringement, the specific acts that infringe on a certain copyright right include the following:

(1) Without permission from the copyright ownerpermission to publish their works.

(2) Publish a work created in collaboration with others as a work created alone without the permission of the co-author.

(3) Without participating in the creation, for the purpose of seeking personal fame and fortune, signing someone else's work.

(4) Distorting or tampering with other people’s works.

(5) Performing, broadcasting, exhibiting, distributing, making movies, television, videos, or adapting, translating, editing, etc. without the permission of the copyright owner, using the work.

(6) Using other people’s works without paying remuneration in accordance with regulations.

(7) Live broadcast of the performer's performance without his permission.

(8) Without the consent of the legal person or client, the author publishes his own work and commissioned works without authorization.

(9) Dealing with jointly inherited copyrights without the consent of other legal heirs.

(10) Modifying the work without the author’s consent.

The above is an introduction to the relevant content. As a copyright owner, after discovering that his work has been infringed, the first thing to do is to collect evidence. It is best to obtain evidence under the notarization of a notary department to make it legally binding, so that your legitimate rights and interests can be safeguarded. If you have any other questions, please feel free to consult the professional lawyers on the Legal Savior Network.