Collection of Laws for Electronic Access
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(a) reproducing minor parts of this database or bank;
(b) reproducing or transforming them in compliance with their purpose, including error
correction;
(c) reproducing them with a view to replacing them in case of loss, destruction or in
case they become unusable;
(d) making a recompilation, that is, reproducing and translating a software, where such
acts enable the obtaining of information necessary for the development of another software
that is compatible with the former, or with one or several other software.
37.—(1) The patrimonial rights of an author shall last for his lifetime. They shall
subsist after his death throughout the current calendar year and for the next fifty years. They
shall also subsist for all his successors or rightful claimants during the year of the death of the
last surviving co-author plus fifty years for joint works.
(2) The patrimonial rights of an author shall last for fifty years with effect from the
calendar year during which the work was published with the consent of the author. If such
publication did not take place within fifty years starting from the date of creation, the rights
shall last for fifty years with effect from the end of the calendar year of creation. This shall
apply to:
(a) audiovisual works;
(b) works of applied arts;
(c) collective works.
(3) For anonymous or pseudonymous works, the rights shall last for fifty years starting
from the end of the calendar year during which publication was authorized. The term of
copyright shall be that provided for in subsection (1) where the pseudonym does not leave
room for any doubts as to the identity of the author, or where the latter reveals his identity
before the deadline expires. If such publication does not take place within fifty years from the
date of creation, the rights shall last for fifty years starting from the end of the calendar year
of creation.
(4) For posthumous works, the term of copyright protection shall be fifty years with
effect from the end of the calendar year of authorized publication of the work. The
patrimonial rights shall belong to the author’s successors in title or rightful claimants where
the work is published during the period provided for in subsection (1) above. Where
publication took place after this period, the rights shall belong to the successor in title or
rightful claimant who did the publication or caused it to be done.
38. Posthumous works shall be published separately, unless they are just a fragment of
a previously published work. They may not be joined together with other previously
published works of the same author unless the successors in title or rightful claimants still
enjoy the exploitation right in these latter works.
CM001EN
Copyright, Law, 19/12/2000, No. 2000/011
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