Economic coprights express the author’s exclusive property rights and protects their economic interests. The most important of these for the designer are certainly the right of reproduction (which may include the right of distribution in the case of a transfer) and the right of transformation. However, when a designer is developing design solutions for media communication channels, the rights of communication to the public are also important, including the right of public display, the right of broadcasting, the right of retransmission by radio, the right of secondary broadcasting and, in particular, the right of making available to the public, which includes almost all types of modern online use.

Economic rights are also absolute and give the author the power to authorise or prohibit the use of their work, to determine the conditions under which they will allow a third party to exploit their work, including the amount of royalties. The terms and conditions of exploitation of the author’s work are always laid down in a written contract, by which the author also transfers the economic rights to the client. These allow the client to use the design work in accordance with the agreed exploitation volume, which is also expressed in terms of the amount of the royalties as compensation for the agreed use (recommended calculation with factors).

It is advisable to regulate the validity of a contractual transfer of rights in such a way as to ensure the payment of royalties to the author, and therefore to link the validity of the transfer of rights to the moment when the royalties are paid in full or at least in majority. The client can therefore start using the designer’s copyright work in the extent of the rights of use, that was agreed upon by the contract, only when the royalties have been paid in part or in full.

For more information, see the Remuneration for the use of copyright work section in the ABOUT RECOMMENDATIONS tab.