Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify copyright issues for the protection and exploitation of products
- protection against unauthorised use on own and other's works
- commercial exploitation of own work under copyright intellectual property and licensing legislation
- Ensure that copyright protection on creative works or performance is adequate locally and internationally
- in printed or recorded media
- in live performance
- in television, cable transmission or online media
- in any media for advertising or screen for other purposes
- Undertake all procedures necessary to ensure that work is protected at local and international level against adaptations of work whether printed, live or in any electronic media
- Undertake research and/or obtain reliable legal advice where necessary to ensure that artists'/copyright owners' rights are protected
- Assign copyright of creative works or performers
- Undertake strategic planning of negotiated deals for works/performances with an understanding of the difference between assignment of copyright and licensing
- Assign copyright for composers and/or performers only where artists are aware of all implications
- Confirm and agree with all relevant parties the degree to which artists and publisher may control the use and exploitation of work under assignment of copyright
- Ensure that the terms of assignments of copyright are written accurately into a formal contract that is available for legal advice where required, and understood and signed by all relevant parties
- License rights to creative works or performance
- Confirm and agree to the territories in which the licensing rights may be exercised with all relevant parties
- Confirm and agree to the timeframe of the license with all relevant parties
- Confirm and agreed to the terms of exploitation of the work/license with all relevant parties
- Ensure that creative control of the work, including to what extent and how it may be recast, is confirmed and agreed by all relevant parties
- Ensure that fees are negotiated whether outright fee, royalty, or a combination of both, relevant to the context of the deal
- Ensure that responsibility for enforcement of the copyrights against infringement are confirmed and agreed
- Ensure that all terms relating to the licensing deal are written accurately, confirmed and signed by all relevant parties
- Comply with conditions of copyright agreement