Law No. 94—36 of February 24, 1994, on Literary and Artistic Property*
TABLE OF CONTENTS**
Articles
Chapter I:
Chapter II:
Chapter III:
Chapter IV:
Chapter V:
Chapter VI:
Chapter VII:
Chapter VIII:
Chapter IX:
Chapter X:
General..........................................................................
Authors’ Rights.............................................................
Assignment of Copyright ..............................................
Publication of Graphic Works.......................................
Manufacture of Recorded Copies..................................
Cinematographic and Audiovisual Works.....................
Software ........................................................................
Exercise of Copyright ...................................................
Procedures and Sanctions..............................................
Miscellaneous ...............................................................
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38 - 42
43 - 47
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50 - 55
56 - 59
Chapter I
General
1. Copyright shall subsist in all original literary, scientific or artistic works whatever
their value, purpose, mode or form of expression, as also in the title of works. It shall apply
equally to a work in its original form and in any form derived from the original.
The works in which copyright subsists shall include:
— written or printed works such as books, pamphlets and other written or printed
works;
— works created for the theater or for broadcasting (sound or visual), whether
dramatic, dramatico-musical, choreographic or of dumbshow;
— musical compositions with or without words;
— photographic works, to which shall be assimilated for the purposes of this Law
works expressed by a process analogous to photography;
— cinematographic works, to which shall be assimilated for the purposes of this Law
works expressed by a process producing visual effects analogous to those of cinematography;
— works executed by painting, drawing, lithography, etching or woodcutting and other
works of like nature;
— sculpture of all kinds;
— works of architecture, comprising also designs, models and the mode of
construction;
— tapestries and articles of artistic handwork, including both the drawings or models
and the work itself;
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