Legislative changes in national law and developments in Community-Union law, both regulatory, particularly on issues of collective management of intellectual property rights (law 4481/2017), and case law, have necessitated adaptation with this current edition.

This systematic analysis includes: Work and creator, the rights of the creator (moral rights, property rights, the economic exploitation of the work, contracts and licenses for the exploitation of the work, collective management of rights), limitations on property rights, related rights, legal protection, applicable and temporal law, and international and community intellectual property law.