In Ireland the term ‘related rights’ means rights extended to third parties, such as the publisher of a book or the record company making a musician’s work available, for the work they add to that of the author.
Other related rights are:
- Rights in performances: performers, producers and broadcasters are entitled to remuneration for the use of their work and to determine how it can be used.
- ‘Sui generis’ rights relate to the unusual occasions when a work that is out of copyright (usually because the author has been dead for more than 70 years) is made available for the first time. These rights confer copyright protection, but not moral rights, on the publisher/producer of this work for 25 years and were introduced as an incentive to publish previously unpublished work.
- Artist’s resale rights, or ‘Doit de suite’ gives a living artist a share in the increased value of their work when it is resold at a higher price than they were originally paid for it.