Copyright
Act. 2004.
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(b) a collective wo rk, the natural person or legal
entity at whose initiative and under whose
direction the work has been c reated shall be the
original owne r of the economic rights;
(c) a work created by an author, employed by an
individual or a legal entity, in the course of his or
her employment, the employer shall , unless
provided otherwise in a contract, be the origina l
owner of the economic rights; and
(d) an audiovisual work the producer s hall, unless
provided otherwise in a contract, be the original
owner of the economic rig hts .
. (3)Ttie CO-authors of audiovisual work and the author of
' :wbrk
a p re;exisiing
of the audiovisual woi'k Shall maintain their economic
rights in their contributions o r pre-existing works,
respectively, tathe extent that those contributions or pre
existing works cim bathe subject of acts covered by their
economic rights separately from the audiovisual work.
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1 6. ( 1 ) T he owne r of copyright may transfer the
economic rights in section 9 to a thi rd pa rty either in
whole or in part but the transfer whether in whole or in
part shall not include the moral rig hts referred to in
section 10.
(2) A contract that requires the transfer of the rig hts
refe rred to in section 1 o s hall be limited in scope to the
useprovidetl for in the contract.
(3) Copyright may be transferred by assignment,
licence,testamentary disposition or operation of law.