LAWS AND TREATIES
COPYRIGHT - MARCH /992
CHAPTER VI
Limitations of Copyright and Exceptions
Uses lawful without authorization
Article 29. The following uses of works already
disclosed lawfully shall be permitted, without the
authorization of the author and without payment of
remuneration, on condition that the title and the
name of the author are stated and that the work is
respected:
(a) performance, cinematographic projection
and communication of recorded or broad
cast works, where taking place, without pay
ment of entrance charges and without a lu
crative purpose, in private premises or for
purely didactic purposes in teaching estab
lishments;
(b) reproduction by photographic processes or
processes analogous to photography where
carried out by public libraries, documenta
tion centers other than commercial estab
lishments, scientific institutions or teaching
establishments, on condition that the num
ber of copies thus made does not exceed the
requirements to be met by those copies;
(c) reproduction of works included in filmed or
televised reporting on current events or of
works shown permanently in a public
place;
(d) reproduction, translation, adaptation, ar
rangement or any other transformation for
exclusively individual and private pur
poses;
(e) quotation of short fragments of works of
others, in written, sound or visual form,
where justified by scientific, critical, didac
tic or informatory purposes.
Licensing arrangements
the licensee can prove that he has requested
the owner of the rights for the authorization
to translate, to publish or to reproduce the
work without having been able to obtain
such authorization;
(c) the work has been translated and repro
duced and the copies have been distributed
on the Angolan territory exclusively, except
for copies that may be exported, within the
strictly necessary limits and with the express
prohibition of marketing them, for the in
tention of Angolan nationals, or of organiza
tions of Angolan nationals, residing
abroad;
(d) fair and equitable remuneration, transferred
in convertible currency, is paid to the owner
of the rights of translation, publication and
reproduction, in accordance with interna
tional usage.
(b)
(2) The license referred to in this Article may
also be granted, for the sole purposes referred to in
the preceding paragraph, to a sound or visual
broadcasting organization having its headquarters
in the People's Republic of Angola on condition
that the translation and reproduction is effected
from lawfully made copies. In addition to the work
published in printed form or some other analogous
form, a license may cover texts inserted or inte
grated into audiovisual fixations intended for
teaching and scientific use, but the translation and
reproduction may not be used by foreign broadcast
ing organizations.
(3) The State Secretariat for Culture shall have
sole competence to grant the licenses referred to in
paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Article.
CHAPTER VII
Article 30. (1) For the purposes of teaching or
scientific research exclusively, it shall also be law
ful, without the consent of the author, to obtain a
non-exclusive license to translate and publish in
Portuguese or in one of the national languages of
Angola a work already lawfully disclosed and which
its author has not withdrawn from circulation or to
reproduce such work in those cases where the
following conditions are met:
(a) a period of three years has elapsed since first
publication or reproduction of the work and
no translation has been published or copies
of the reproduction concerned have been ex
hausted within such period;
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Infringement of Copyright
Infringement ofeconomic rights
Article 31. (1) Anyone who uses a literary, artis
tic or scientific work without the authorization of
its author or who exceeds the limits of an authori
zation that has been granted shall be deemed to
have committed the offense of usurpation.
(2) Anyone who uses, in whole or in part, as his
own the literary, artistic or scientific work of
another person shall be deemed to have committed
the offense of infringement or plagiarism.
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