UKRAINE Law and Practice Contributed by: Oleksandr Mamunya, Ganna Prokhorova, Anastasia Mindrul and Oksana Padokh, Mamunya IP
The moral rights of the author include: • the right to demand recognition of authorship; • the right to prohibit the mentioning of their name during any use of the work; • the right to choose a pseudonym, and to specify and demand the mentioning of the pseudonym instead of the real name of the author; • the right to demand the preservation of the integrity of the work, and to oppose any dis - tortion, alteration or other modification of the work, including the addition of illustrations, prefaces, afterwords, comments, etc, without the author’s consent; • the right to provide a title to the work or to leave it untitled; and • the right to dedicate the work to a person (or persons), event or date. Personal moral rights belong exclusively to the author and cannot be transferred or inherited by other persons. The copyright holder has the right to use the work in any way(s), as well as the exclusive right to permit or prohibit the use of the work by other individuals. Methods of using the work include: • reproduction; • inclusion in a composite work; • inclusion in another work, excluding a com - posite work; • distribution of copies of the work; • importation of copies of the work; • leasing or lending copies of the work; • public performance, public display, public demonstration, public notification, interactive provision of access to the public, and other
methods of making the work available to the public; • translation; and • adaptation, arrangement and other similar alterations of the work. This list is not exhaustive. 3.5 Term of Protection and Termination In Ukraine, the general term of validity of copy - right expires after 70 years, calculated from January 1st of the year following the year of the author’s death. There are also specific requirements on the term of validity for works published anonymously or under a pseudonym. For more details, contact a local attorney. The term of copyright validity for a work created in collaboration expires after 70 years, calcu - lated from January 1st of the year following the year of the last co-author’s death. The term of validity of intellectual property rights to an audi - ovisual work expires after 70 years, calculated from January 1st of the year following the year of the last author’s death. The law also specifies a special term of propri - etary rights for unpublished works. For more details, contact a local attorney. Ukrainian legislation does not include provisions allowing early termination of proprietary rights. The author’s personal moral rights are protected indefinitely. 3.6 Collective Rights Management Systems In Ukraine, collective management of property rights is carried out by collective management organisations in accordance with the Law on
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