Netherlands: : New copyright contract law omes into Effect

• Autores: Youssef Fouad
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 8, 2015, págs. 24-25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On 1 July 2015, the new Copyright Contract Act (wet auteurscontractenrecht) came into effect in the Netherlands. The law seeks to reduce the existing asymmetry in contractual negotiations between authors and performing artists and exploiters of their material. According to the Dutch legislator, authors’ and performing artists’ dependence on centralised exploiters calls for a stronger legal position for authors and performing artists