The matter of copyright has gained enormous significance in recent decades and has likewise become increasingly more complex. Copyright Law has always regulated the rights accruing to authors and creators of works, or performing artists, respectively, and influenced (mostly contractually) the legal relationship between such creator or performing artist on the one hand, and their contractual partners, such as film and TV producers, TV networks, music producers and labels, publishers of all kinds (newspaper, magazine, music, stage, etc), as well as games developers, on the other.