COPYRIGHT - MARCH 1992
CHAPTER 111
Content and Transfer of Rights
Economic rights
Article' 17. (I) The author of a work protected
under this Law shall have the exclusive right to per
form or authorize others to perform the following
acts:
(a) to publish, reproduce or communicate his
work to the public by any means, including
performance, publication by graphical or
mechanical processes, cinematographic fixa
tions and projection and sound or visual
broadcasting;
(b) to translate, adapt or arrange his work or
transform it in any other manner.
(2) It shall be for the author to lay down the
conditions of the authorization he affords to others
to use his works, particularly the amount of the cor
responding remuneration, notwithstanding the
rules and schedules of fees established by regulation
by the State Secretariat for Culture or by the body
referred to in Article 39 of this Law.
LAWS AND TREATIES
Transfer of rights
Article 19. (1) The author may authorize the use
of all or a part of his work, by any means already
known or to be invented, whereby the corre
sponding authorization must be given in writing
and must set out the applicable conditions and the
authorized mode of use.
(2) The author may transfer all or a part of the
economic rights afforded to him by this Law by
means of a written document laying down the con
ditions and limits of transfer.
(3) Where the authorization and the transfer re
ferred to in this Article concern a given mode of use
of the work, they shall not prevent the author from
authorizing other modes of use or from transferring
the relevant rights to others, and their beneficiaries
may not transfer them to others without the explicit
consent of the author.
(4) Complete transfer of the economic elements
of copyright shall be subject to authorization by the
State Secretariat for Culture or the body referred to
in Article 39 of this Law.
CHAPTER IV
Moral rights
Article 18. The author shall have the right:
(a) to claim authorship of his work and to re
quire that his name be mentioned each time
the work is communicated to the public (ex
cept where it is included, incidentally or
accidentally, in reports on current events
transmitted by broadcasting);
(b) to defend the integrity of his work by oppos
ing any distortion, mutilation or modifica
tion to his work and, generally, any act that
denatures his work and is liable to prejudice
his honor and reputation;
(c) to keep his work unpublished, to amend it
before or after communication to the public,
to withdraw it from circulation or to sus
pend any form of use previously authorized,
subject, in the latter case, to compensating
others for any prejudice they suffer as a
result of the suspension or withdrawal from
circulation.
(2) These rights shall be inalienable and impres
criptible; they shall subsist even in the event of
complete transfer of the rights to others and after
the death of the author.
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Duration of Rights
General rule
Article 20. (I) The author's economic rights
shall last for his lifetime and, for the benefit of his
heirs under the applicable legislation, 50 years after
his death or 25 years, in the case of photographic
works or works of applied art, as from January 1 of
the year following that of his death.
(2) In the case of a work of joint authorship, the
periods laid down in the above paragraph shall
begin with the death of the last surviving joint
author.
Works offolklore
Article 21. The protection of works of folklore
shall not be limited in time.
Moral rights
Article 22. After the death of the author, the
moral rights shall be exercised by his heirs, or if the
latter refrain from exercising them without good
reason, by the State Secretariat for Culture.
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