Collection of Laws for Electronic Access
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21. “videogram producer” shall mean the individual or corporate body which first fixes
pictures with or without sound, or the transfer of such images, or the individual or corporate
body who took the fixation initiative;
22. “publication” shall mean the act of making public the original or copy of a literary
or artistic work, interpretation, programme, phonogram or videogram;
23. “rebroadcast” shall mean the simultaneous or delayed broadcast by an audiovisual
communication firm.
Part II
Copyright
Chapter I
Protected Works and the Rightholder
3.—(1) This law shall protect all literary or artistic works, irrespective of the mode,
worth, genre or purpose of the expression, notably:
(a) literary works, including computer programs;
(b) musical compositions with or without lyrics;
(c) dramatic, dramatico-musical, choreographic works and pantomimes created for the
stage;
(d) audiovisual works;
(e) drawings, paintings, lithographs, etchings or wood engravings and other works of
the same genre;
(f) all kinds of sculptures, bas-reliefs and mosaics;
(g) architectural works, including the drawings, models and the construction itself;
(h) tapestries and objects created by the arts and applied arts, including the sketches or
patterns and the works themselves;
(i) maps as well as graphic and plastic drawings and reproductions of a scientific or
technical nature;
(j) photographic works including works expressed by a process similar to photography.
(2) Copyright shall relate to the expression through which ideas are described,
explained and illustrated. It shall cover the distinctive features of works, such as the plan of a
literary work insofar as it is materially linked to the expression.
(3) This law shall protect only expressions or original distinctive features resulting
from a creation.
(4) Copyright shall not protect:
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Copyright, Law, 19/12/2000, No. 2000/011
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