— Whether the public opinion was taken into account when preparing a project? — It should be noted that for the first time the draft of the new law was submitted to the public, and then, taking into account the comments and proposals received, it was revised, and a new version of the project was prepared. Its discussion of the project was organized in the form of a cycle of seminars, the financing of which was carried out by BearningPoint — one of the USAID programs. Since the activities of different categories of authors fall into the sphere of regulation of the law, and each field of activity has its own specifics, we needed to find out the opinion of all categories of authors. Therefore, ten seminars were organized, taking into account the specifics of each area — for composers, writers, artists, architects, programmers, for public sector workers, for example, customs structures and others. A separate seminar was organized for owners of related rights taking into account their users, t. e. performers, broadcasting organizations, phonogram manufacturers. One of the most fruitful was a seminar with the participation of architects who approached this seriously: they thoroughly studied the project and competently posed their questions. One of the nodal issues sounded like this: whether, when destroying or modifying a particular building or structure, to take permission of the architect (author), or the owner of the building has the right to act with his property as he will please? Architects propose to oblige the owner who destroys or modify the building to pay compensation to the author of the project. However, this central issue has not yet been resolved, since we could not develop a single opinion. Apparently, the Ministry of Urban Planning should say its word here. A number of changes were included in the new version of the project. — What are the values of documents today confirm the rights of architects, as the authors of a building or structure? Do they have any security documents in their hands confirming their copyright to a particular object? — Most of today’s problems in the field of architecture are rooted in the past. In Soviet times, a small agreement or order was drawn up, according to which an architect, who is the author of a sketch or project, received a reward, and all other rights of use passed to the state.
