CHAPTER VI: DURATION OF COPYRIGHT
Article 58
Copyright shall subsist for the lifetime of the author and for the 50 calendar years beginning from
the end of the year of his death.
Article 59
In the case of works of joint authorship, the rights referred to in Article 24 shall be protected during
the lifetime of the last surviving joint author and for 50 years after his death.
Article 60
The economic rights in a work published anonymously or under a pseudonym shall be protected for
a period of 50 years beginning from the end of the calendar year in which the work was lawfully
published for the first time, or, failing such an event within 50 years from the making of the work, 50
years beginning from the end of the calendar year in which the work was made accessible to the
public, or, failing such events within 50 years from the making of the work, 50 years beginning from
the end of the calendar year of such making.
If, before the expiry of such a period, the identity of the author is revealed or is not left in any doubt,
the provisions of Article 58 shall apply.
Article 61
The economic rights in a collective, audiovisual or posthumous work shall be protected for a period
of 50 years beginning from the end of the calendar year in which the work was lawfully published for
the first time, or, failing such an event within 50 years from the making of the work, 50 years
beginning from the end of the calendar year in which the work was made accessible to the public,
or, failing such events within 50 years from the making of the work, 50 years beginning from the
end of the calendar year of such making.
Article 62
The economic rights in a work of applied art shall be protected for a period of 25 years beginning
from the making of the work.
Article 63
In the case of a work originally belonging to a legal entity, subject to the imprescriptible right of the
State with regard to folklore, the rights referred to in Article 24 shall be protected for a period of 50
years beginning from the date on which the work was lawfully made accessible to the public.
Article 64
The rights referred to in Article 24 shall be administered by a collective management body that shall
be set up and whose role shall be to defend all the interests of authors and their assignees.
Article 65
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