Cornerstone Principles in General Classification of Cross-Border Copyright Regulation

Abstract

The article considers the concept and determines the place of the principles of legal regulation of crossborder copyright in the legal regulation of special legal norms. A general classification of the principles of legal regulation of cross-border copyright is proposed, which includes three separate groups: cornerstone principles, special material legal, and special conflict legal principles. A group of cornerstone principles of copyright and the guiding rules operating in all copyright protection systems is considered in detail. These systems include international, cross-border and national systems, and those forming the specifics of copyright as an object of protection. Special material legal and conflict legal principles operate precisely in the system of legal regulation of cross-border copyright. The author refers the principle of exclusive rights in copyrighted works, the principle of urgent protection, the principle of the implementation of protection in favor of the author and his successors to the cornerstone principles of regulation in copyright law. The cornerstone principles predominantly originated in the national copyright law of different states, which initially extended only to the citizens of these states, were subsequently reproduced in basic international agreements and extended to international legal protection, and, accordingly, to regulation of cross-border copyrights.