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Article 23. (1) -0n expiryofthe ·term·ofprotec
tion for copyright, a literary, artistic or scientific
work may be freely used; it shall be compulsory to
mention the name of its author, the integrity of the
work must be respected and the State Secretariat
for Culture must require the payment, for any use
of the work forlucrative purposes, of an amount to
be devoted to the promotion and development of
culture.
(2) The moral-rights in works in the public do
main shall be exercised by the State Secretariat for
Culture.
CHAPTER V
Work Utilization Contracts
LAWS AND"TREATIES
(3) Where remuneration consists in a percen
tage levied on the..price ()L~ach COpy sold, .the.pub
lisher must furnish his accounts to the author each
quarter at least unless the contract stipulates a dif
fering period.
(4) The authorization to reproduce a literary,
artistic or scientific work by a mechanical process
shall not imply the right to perform it in public or
by means of any mechanical process.
Performancecon"ac~
Article 26. By .means . of . a public performance
contract, the author authorizes the public perfor
mance of his dramatic, dramatico-musical or cho
reographic work or the public performance of his
musical or literary and musical work; such authori
zationshall be deemed' to .exclude" sound or visual
broadcasting, recording on cinematographic film or
any other form ofreproduction of the performance
comprising the work.
General provisions
Article 24. Contracts by which an author autho
rizes another person to use his work must compul
sorily be in writing and must designate the con
tracting parties, give the title of the work, state the
rights assigned, the modes of use authorized, the
duration of the assignment, the form and the
amount of the corresponding remuneration and the
conditions of payment.
Publishing contracts
Article 25. (1) By means of a publishing con
tract, the author of a work authorizes the publisher
to reproduce that work by a graphical or mechani
cal process and place it on sale; where not other
wise agreed, it shall be assumed that the authoriza
tion concerns only one edition and that the pub
lisher undertakes to carry out its publication and
diffusion.
(2) The contract shall state, in addition to the
elements given in Article 24, the time limits laid
down for submitting the work, the date on which
publication of the work will begin and the date on
which publication will be completed, the number of
copies, the price of each copy-if remuneration
consists of a percentage levied on that price
together with the right of the author to check the
proofs, and must also be supplemented by the other
required clauses, particularly as regards the condi
tions for termination.
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Cinematographic utilization contracts
Article 27. By means of a cinematographic con
tract, the producer acquires the right to lise a liter
ary, artistic or scientific work in a film, to distrib
ute and project such film, and. undertakes to re
munerate the authors of the film, including the
director.
Sound or visual broadcasting contracts
Article 28. (1) The authorization afforded to
transmit a work by sound or visual broadcasting
shall not imply the right to record that work nor to
communicate it in any public place by means of
loudspeakers or by any other means serving to dif
fuse signs, sounds or images; such right shall re
quire a special authorization and may give rise to
additional remuneration and is of an exclusive na
ture for broadcasts made from the Angolan na
tional territory.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of the above
paragraph, the ephemeral recording of sound or
audiovisual works whose broadcasting has been au
thorized shall be lawful; where they are not of an
exceptional documentary nature, such recording
must be destroyed within one year, unless a longer
period has been laid down by common accord with
the author. Such recordings may not be transferred
to others on any grounds, whether gratuitously or
for payment.
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