It seems that maybe. At least this is what the producer of the 2016 movie hit "Planet Single" thought.

The launch was legally supported by attorney Janusz Piotr Kolczynski who is responsible for the copyright and media law practice of our law firm and for negotiations with organizations of collective management of copyrights and by attorney Dominika Sułecka-Tosza.

On 8.03.2022, attorney Janusz Piotr Kolczynski made several comments to Dziennik Gazeta Prawna concerning the minister’s response dated 25 February 2022 to a recent parliamentary question. The author wondered why the minister is so slow in implementing an effective library e-lending system in Poland? Why do we as a state fail to provide a high level of protection for authors?

By means of yesterday’s judgment, the CJEU is trying to mitigate the adverse trend in judicial decisions with respect to the right of communication of works to the public which has emerged after 2013 after the Svensson case.

Will Anti-Crisis Shield 1 Deprive Artists of Royalties Due to Them? - Commentary by Janusz Piotr Kolczyński, attorney-at-law, for Dziennik Gazeta Prawna (The Law Gazette Daily).

The new rates of royalties for authors of audio-visual works and authors of works used in films, including rates for producers of such works, have been “officially” approved. They will be due for cable re-transmission. The new rates will replace, by virtue of law, the contractual ones, if they are different than the approved rates.

The Constitutional Tribunal (hereinafter: CT) received an inquiry from the Supreme Court (hereinafter: SC) pertaining to the constitutionality of provision of Art. 79.1.3 of the Act on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights of 4 February 1994 (Polish Journal of Laws [Dz.U.] of 2019, item 1231) in reference to the possibility of authors seeking a double amount of remuneration for copyright infringement.

We want to invite you to a brief discussion of novelties which, on account of the Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC (“DSM Directive”) of 17 April 2019, will soon be introduced to the copyright law.