11° “expression of folklore”: group-oriented and tradition-based creation of a community or
individuals developed and perpetually exercised on the territory of Rwanda, reflecting the
expectation of the folk arts of such a community. These are:
a) folktales, folk poetry, and folk riddles;
b) folk songs and instrumental folk music;
c) folk dances and folk plays;
d) productions of folk arts in particular, drawings, paintings, carvings, sculptures, pottery,
terra-cotta, mosaic, woodwork, metalware, jewelry and indigenous textiles;
12° “fixation”: embodiment of sounds, images or both or of their broadcasting for their
emmission, reproduction or communicated through a device;
13° “exclusive license” : license contract by which the right owner grants authorization to
any person to carry out, in such manner that is allowed to him, relevant acts of use of his
economic rights referred to in the license contract, to the exclusion of any other person
including the rights’ owner ;
14° “non exclusive license” : license contract by which the right owner grants authorization
to two or several persons to carry out, in such manner that is allowed to him, relevant
acts of use of his economic rights referred to in the license contract;
15° “rental”: transfer of the possession of the original or the copy of a work or phonogram
for a limited period of time for profit-making purposes;
16° “technological protection measures”: technology, device or component that, in the
normal course of operation, is designed to prevent or restrict acts, in respect of works or
objects of related rights, which are not authorized by the right holder;
17° “work”: literary, artistic or scientific work;
18° “anonymous work”: work revealed without indicating the name or pseudonym of the
author;
19° “audiovisual work” : work that consists of a series of related images which impart the
impression of motion, with or without accompanying sounds, susceptible of being made
visible, and where accompanied by sounds, susceptible of being made audible;
20° “collective work” : work created by several persons, represented by an individual or an a
legal entity which is declared on their own behalf; and that the identity of the contributing
in its work shall not be separated in the manufacture of the work such that no person can
understand the role of each individual and their names;
21° “work of applied art”: artistic creation with utilitarian functions or incorporated in a
useful article, whether made by hand or produced on an industrial scale;