Theory and practice of intellectual property
№ 4 / 2018

ISSN (Print) 2308-0361
ISSN (Online) 2519-2744

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33731/42018.159158

Published      2018-07-27

Decisions and orders of the Ukrainian SRR on rates of royalties

Volodymyr Drobiazko
Ukraine

Abstract
In this article reviewed decisions and orders of the Ukrainian SRR on rates of royalties at 1925–1935 years, investigated formation and development of the national system of payment of royalties. It is noted at that time copyright was adapted to economic conditions: as users of works began to act not private organizations, but only state (organizations). State, system of state organizations acted as the only monopoly consumer of the results of creativity protected by copyright. There was no need for the author to have exclusive property rights to use the works. Property rights were reduced to royalties, which became normalized (minimum and maximum remuneration rates were determined), and some cases it was fixed. For public performance, the remuneration was determined as a percentage of the actual fee, for each act or (of) the actual fee for the entire program. Minimal norms of authors fee for literally works were mainly fixed and depended from rules of circulation for one edition.

Keywords: copyright, copyright fee, minimum amount of royalties, public performance of works