Collection of Laws for Electronic Access
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(2) The rights of the videogram producer pursuant to Section 64(1) as well as the
copyright and performers’ rights which he may have on the fixed works may not be
transferred separately.
65. The audiovisual broadcasting firms shall enjoy the exclusive right to carry out or
authorize:
— the fixation, reproduction of the fixation, programmes rebroadcast and the
communication of its programmes to the public including the supply thereof to the public by
cable or wireless such that any person may have individual access to it wherever and
whenever he so desires;
— the supply of its programmes to the public through sale, rental or exchange.
66. The authorizations hereunder shall, under pain of nullity, be issued through any
written medium including the electronic media.
67.—(1) The beneficiaries of the rights stipulated herein may not prohibit:
(a) private and free performance in an exclusive family setting;
(b) reproductions reserved strictly for private use by the person having made them and
which are not intended for collective use;
(c) subject to sufficient information for the identification of the source:
— analyses and short quotations made necessary by the critical, controversial,
pedagogic, scientific or informative nature of the work containing them;
— press review;
— the broadcasting, even in their entirety for news purposes, of speeches intended for
the public meetings of a political nature and in official ceremonies;
(d) parody, pastiche and caricature, considering the laws governing each genre.
(2) Performers may not prohibit the reproduction and public communication of their
performances if they are incidental to an event which is the main subject of an audiovisual
series, work or document.
68. The duration of the patrimonial rights dealt with in this Part shall be fifty years with
effect from:
— the end of the calendar year of fixation, for phonograms, videograms and the
performances fixed thereon;
— the end of the calendar year of execution, for performances not fixed on phonogram
or videogram;
— the end of the calendar year of broadcast, for the programmes of audiovisual
broadcasting firms.
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Copyright, Law, 19/12/2000, No. 2000/011
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