COPYRIGHT - MARCH 1992
LAWS AND TREATIES
CHAPTER II
legal person who has communicated that work to
the public for the first time.
General rule
Article 11. .(1) Copyright shall belong, except
where otherwise explicitly provided,.to .theperson
who has created the literary, artistic or scientific
work.
Works offolklore
(2) Unless otherwise proven, the person under
whose name or pseudonym the work has been com
municated to the public shall be deemed the creator
ofthe work concerned.
Works ofjoint authorship
AlticJ~J2~(UE~c~pt where.otherwise explicitly
agreed, copyright in a work of joint authorship shall
belongjointly, as a whole, to all those persons who
have participated in its creation; the inseparable
contribution of each of the authors shall be consid
ered as being of equal value.
(2) Where it is possible to distinguish the indi
vidual contribution of one of the joint authors, the
person concerned may exercise the author's rights
relating to his contribution where that does not
prejudice use of the joint work.
Collective works
Article 13.(1) The.copyright in a collectivework
shall vest in the natural or legal ~person who has
organized and directed its creation and under
whose name the work has been disclosed or pub
lished.
(2) However, where it is possible to distinguish
within the wholeof the collectivework the personal
production of one or more contributors, the rules
regarding works of joint authorship shall apply to
the rights in such personal production.
(3) Newspapers and other periodicals shall be
deemed to be collective works and the copyright in
such works shall belong to the respective enter
prises.
Anonymous works or works of unknown authors
Article 14. Where the identity of the author has
not been legally established, the copyright in a work
published anonymously or in a work of an un
known author shall be exercised by the natural or
AO
Article 15. (1) Copyright in works of folklore of
which the author is unknown shall belong to the
State which shall exercise it through the interme
diary of the State Secretariat for Culture, notwith
standing the rights of those who have made collec
tions or transcriptions or arrangements of such
works, on condition that the collections, transcrip
tions .or arrangements concerned respect the au
thenticity of the works and show originality.
(2) However, works of folklore may be freely
used by a public person for non-lucrative pur
poses.
(3) Copies of works of Angolan folklore, as also
copies.oftranslations, adaptations, arrangements or
other transformations of such works, made abroad
without the authorization of the competent author
ity, may neither be imported nor distributed.
Special rules'
Article 16. (1) Except where otherwise-explicitly
agreed, the copyright in works created either under
an employment contract or service contract or in
the exercise of duties, shall belong to the natural or
legal person to whom the production owes its ori
gin.
(2) Notwithstanding the above paragraph, the
producer shall conserve his right to remuneration
for.uses of the works beyond the framework of the
corresponding contract or the purpose for which
they have been created.
(3) Notwithstanding the rights of each of the
contributors-the director and the authors of the
plot, adaptation, sequence, dialogues and music
in their individual contributions, copyright shall
belong to:
(a) the producer, in the case of a cinemato
graphic work or a work produced by pro
cesses analogous to cinematography;
(b) the sound or visual broadcasting organiza
tions, in the case of sound or visual broad
casts;
(c) the publisher, in the case of newspapers,
reviews, encyclopedias or other similar pub
lications.
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