SECTION:
2.1
DEFINITIONS
Except when the context or a specific provision of law otherwise requires, the following
terms when used in this Chapter, for the purpose of this Chapter, shall have the meaning as
ascribed to them in this section:
(a)
The term "applicant" includes the author or a literary, scientific or artistic work, his
heirs and assigns, and the proprietor thereof;
(b)
The term "author" refers to the person who has created a literary, scientific or artistic
work and includes writers, playwrights, composers, designers, painters, architects,
sculptors, engravers, lithographers, illustrators, photographers, translators, arrangers,
adaptors, and all other creators of literary, scientific or artistic works. However,
where the work is produced by officials, employees, or workers, as part of their
duties, the persons who employ them shall be entitled to copyright originally, unless
the contrary results from a contract or regulations applying to the parties concerned.
Further, where the work is commissioned by a person who is not the employer of the
author and who pays or agrees to pay for it and the work made in pursuance of that
commission, the person who so commissioned the work shall be entitled to copyright
originally, unless there is a stipulation to the contrary or he has not fulfilled his
agreement;
(c)
A work is "created" when it is fixed in a copy or sound recording for the first time;
where a work is prepared over a period of time, the portion of it that has been fixed at
any particular time constitutes the work as of that time, and where the work has been
prepared in different versions and each version constitutes an separate work.
I.
An "anonymous work" is a work on the copies or sound recordings of which no
natural person is identified as author.
11.
"Audiovisual works" are works that consist of a series of related images which
are intrinsically intended to be shown by the use of machines or devices such as
projectors, viewers, or electronic equipment, together with accompanying
sounds, if any, regardless of the nature of the material objects, such as films or
tapes in which works are embodied.
Ill.
A "collective work" is a word which has been created by two or more physical
persons at the initiative and under the direction of a physical person or legal
entity with the understanding that it will be disclosed by the latter person or
entity under his or its own name and that the identity of the contributing physical
persons will not be indicated in the work.
IV.
A "derivative work" is a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as
a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion
picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgement, condensation, or
any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted. A work
consisting of editorial revision annotations, elaboration, or other modifications,
which as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is a "derivative
work".
v. A "joint work" is a work prepared by two or more authors with the intention that
their contributions be merged into inseparable or interdependent parts of a
unitary whole.
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