Djibouti
Copyright and neighboring rights
Law No.154/AN/06 of July 23, 2006
[NB Law No. 154/AN/06 of July 23, 2006, on the Protection of Copyright and
Neighboring Rights]
Courtesy translation provided by WIPO, © 2012
Contents
Title 1 Copyright ............................................................................................... 1
Title 2 – Neighboring rights
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Title 3 – Payment for private copies .................................................................... 11
Title 4 Protection of expressions of folklore......................................................... 11
Title 5 – Collective management of rights and works in the public domain
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Title 6 Creation and organization of the Office
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Title 7 – Welfare and Cultural Fund......................................................................... 14
Title 8 Procedures and sanctions
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Title 9 – Scope of application of the Law
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Title 10 – Final provisions....................................................................................... 17
Title 11 Obligations relating to the action of international intellectual property . 18
Title 12 – Miscellaneous provisions
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Title 1 – Copyright
Chapter 1 – Subject matter of copyright
Article 1 The author of a work of the mind shall enjoy in that work, by the mere fact
of its creation, an exclusive incorporeal property right that shall be enforceable
against all persons.
This right shall include attributes of a moral nature, as well as attributes of an
economic nature, as determined by this Law.
Art. 2. – The provisions of this Law shall protect copyright in all original literary,
scientific or artistic works of any kind, form of expression, merit or purpose, without
this protection being subject to any formality whatsoever.
Art. 3: Protected works
The following, in particular, shall be considered works of the mind within the meaning
of this Law:
((1) books, pamphlets and other literary, artistic and scientific writings;
((2) lectures, addresses, sermons, pleadings and other works of such nature;
((3) works created for the stage, including both dramatic and dramaticomusical
works and choreographic and mimed works, the production of which is fixed in writing
or otherwise;
((4) musical compositions with or without words
((5) works of drawing, painting, engraving and lithography;
((6) works of applied art such as tapestries and handicrafts, including the drawings
and models thereof;
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