Some major changes to the rules for paying authors were introduced in 2023. It will no longer be possible to agree with all authors on the till now commonly used fixed licence fee for the creation of a copyright work. This is because the fixed licence fee is often disproportionately lower than the profits from the licence and therefore must only be used in justified cases.

Is this your case?

It is not clearly stated anywhere. However, if the possibilities of exploiting the licence to the copyright work were already known in principle when the licence agreement was signed, a one-time fixed fee is acceptable. This is for example the case in IT or architecture.

Author: Hana Císlerová

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