Problematyka zrzeczenia się praw autorskich w ustawodawstwie polskim

Legal trade in intangible goods in the form of copyrights is common practice nowadays. Thanks to agreements on the use of copyrights and on the transfer of copyrights, the creator is able to freely dispose of his works and, therefore, to obtain economic benefits many times. Due to the duality of copyrights adopted in Polish legislation, in the event of the author’s death, the personal copyrights do not expire, while the economic copyrights are transferred to the public domain as a rule after 70 years. However, we should ask ourselves whether in the current legal situation it is possible to dispose of one’s copyright in the form of a renunciation of the copyright while one is still alive. The subject of this article is to analyse the problem of admissibility of renunciation of copyrights in Polish legislation.