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Copyrights and sharing

Copyright

COPYRIGHT (provisions from the agreement entered into with the authors):

  1. Upon acceptance by the Ordering Party of the work referred to in § 1.1 of the Agreement, the author shall transfer, without any additional remuneration, to the Ordering Party the exclusive, time- and territory-unlimited property copyright to the work as a whole in the fields of exploitation set forth in Article 50 of the Act on Copyright Law, and specified below:

    1. recording the work without any quantitative limitations, using any technique, including printing, digital, reprographic, electronic, photographic, optical, laser, magnetic recording, image and sound recording techniques, on any carrier, including electronic, IT, digital, polygraphic, optical, magnetic carriers, floppy disks, CD-ROM, DVD, and paper, in the form of ebooks and audiobooks, as well as in any IT systems, in particular the Internet;

    2. reproducing the work without any quantitative limitations, using any possible technique, including printing, reprographic, digital, electronic, laser, photographic, magnetic recording, image and sound recording, or optical technique, on any carrier, including IT, electronic, digital, polygraphic, optical, magnetic carriers, floppy disks, CD-ROM, DVD, and paper, on-line, in any IT systems, in particular the Internet;

    3. uploading the work to computer memory and multimedia networks, including the Internet, internal networks such as the Intranet, without any quantitative restrictions, as well as transmission of the work through the aforementioned networks, including on-line;

    4. dissemination of the work, including its marketing, especially in print, in book form (including collective works), in magazines, in publications, as part of electronic products, including electronic databases, on IT, magnetic, digital, optical, and electronic carriers, including in the form of CD-ROM, DVD, as part of multimedia networks, including internal networks (such as the Intranet), and the Internet, in the on-line system, by on-demand communication, by lending the work;

    5. hiring, renting, lending, leasing, or exchanging the carriers on which the work is recorded, fixed and reproduced in accordance with the provisions of points "a" and "b" above, using any technique for making the work available;

    6. granting all licenses and sublicenses to use the work in any technique and in all fields of exploitation referred to in this paragraph;

    7. public performing, reproducing, exhibiting and displaying, broadcasting and re-broadcasting, as well as making the work available to the public in such a way that everyone can have access to the work in a place and at a time individually chosen by them.

  2. The author hereby consents to the exercise of derivative rights by the Ordering Party and transfers the right to authorize the exercise of derivative rights to the work in the fields of exploitation listed in sub-paragraph 1 above, to the Ordering Party.

  3. The author hereby represents that the performance of this Agreement shall in no way violate any rights of third parties, including in particular personal or property copyright and related rights in accordance with the provisions of the Act of 4 February 1994 on Copyright and Related Rights. However, if any such a violation is found to have occurred or if a third party files a claim related to such a violation, the contractor hereby represents that the contractor shall be solely liable for such violations and shall bear all costs linked with any judicial proceedings, including costs of legal representation.