Collection of Laws for Electronic Access
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7. “pseudonymous work” shall be one in which the author uses a false name;
8. “work belonging to the public domain” shall be one whose term of protection has
lapsed;
9. “work derived from folklore” shall be one based on facts and ideas borrowed from
the traditional cultural heritage of the country;
10. “folklore” shall mean all productions involving aspects characteristic of traditional
cultural heritage, produced and perpetuated by a community or by individuals who clearly
reflect the expectations of such community, comprising particularly folk tales, folk dances
and shows, as well as artistic expressions, rituals and productions of popular art;
11. “computer program” or “software” shall be all the instructions given to a computer
to carry out certain operations;
12. “databases” or “data bank” shall be a collection of works, data or other elements
systematised in such a way that they can be retrieved and processed using a computer;
13. “commissioned work” shall be one produced for an individual or corporate body for
payment;
14. “collective work” shall be one produced by several authors at the initiative and
under the authority of an individual or of a corporate body which publishes it in its name, and
in which the contributions of the authors who participated in producing the work are reflected
in the whole work, without the possibility of identifying the individual contribution of each of
the authors in the whole;
15. “performing artists” shall be authors, singers, musicians, dancers and other persons
who represent, sing, recite, play or perform in any other way literary or artistic works,
including folklore expressions;
16. “phonogram” shall be any fixation of sound coming from a rendering or
performance of other sounds, or of a representation of sounds other than in the form of a
fixation incorporated in an audiovisual work;
17. “videogram” shall be any fixation of pictures with or without sound;
18. “programme” shall be any set of pictures, sounds or pictures and sounds, recorded
or otherwise, incorporated in signals destined for distribution;
19. “audiovisual communication firm” shall be a radio or television broadcasting body
or any other medium for broadcasting programmes to the public;
20. “phonogram producer” shall mean the individual or corporate body which is first to
fix the sounds coming from a performance or other sounds, or from a transcription of sounds
or the individual or corporate body which took the initiative to fix same;
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Copyright, Law, 19/12/2000, No. 2000/011
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