Special Conflict of Laws and Legal Principles on Regulation of Cross-Border Copyright Relations

Abstract

The article provides the original classification of principles of legal regulation of cross-border copyright relations including three types of groups governing rules, described based on a number of essential criteria: systemic principles, specific substantive and specific conflict-of-laws principles. A detailed study covers a group of special conflict of laws and legal principles, structurally including the following two main regulators: the law of the State where protection of the work is claimed (lex loci protectionis), and the law of the State on the origin of the work (lex loci origins). The author conducts the analysis of cross-border copyright not only from the standpoint of disparate systems of national laws following national character of international legal protection, and separately regulated copyright relations, as reflected in most modern scientific research in the field of copyright. The author of this study uses a systematic approach that makes it possible to identify common fundamental principles of regulation of respective relations groups at the scale of the community of States parties to the international system of copyright protection. The analysis is conducted through the action of international agreements on copyright together with the national legal orders of the States participating in these agreements, and, simultaneously, through a comparative analysis of copyright modern States among themselves. The identified systemic regulators are the principles of legal regulation of cross-border copyright relations in the context of omissionship conflict and even substantive regulation in certain institutions copyright that can fulfill the function of legal guidelines.