‐ productions of folk arts such as drawings, paintings, sculptures, pottery, terracotta, carvings,
mosaics, woodwork, metal ware, jewelry, textiles and costumes;
(i) “fixation” means the embodiment of sounds, or of the representations thereof, from which they
can be perceived, reproduced or communicated through a device;
(j) “rental” means transfer of the possession of the original or a copy of a work for a limited period of
time for profit‐making purposes;
(k) “collective work” means a work created on the initiative of a natural person or legal entity who
edits, publishes and discloses it under his own direction and in his own name and in which the
personal contributions of various authors who take part in the writing of it merge into the whole for
which they have been designed, so that it is impossible to attribute to each of them a distinct right
over the whole that is created;
(l) “composite work” means a work into which a pre‐existing work or fragments of a pre‐existing
work are incorporated without the collaboration of the authors of such works;
(m) “work of joint authorship” means a work created by the collaboration of two or more authors;
(n) “work of the public domain” means a work other than folklore that is not protected by copyright
owing to the expiry of the term of protection or the lack of an international instrument ensuring the
protection of the work;
(o) “work derived from folklore” means any work composed of elements borrowed from the
Burundian traditional cultural heritage;
(p) “published work” means a work of which copies have been made accessible to the public with
the consent of the author, provided that, taking into account the nature of the work, the number of
such published copies is enough to satisfy the market;
(q) “work first published” means a work whose first publication took place abroad and its publication
in the country took place within 30 days following that first previous publication (simultaneous
publication);
(r) “phonogram” means any fixation of the sounds of a performance or of other sounds, or of a
representation of sounds, other than in the form of a fixation incorporated in an audiovisual work;
(s) “phonogram producer” means the physical person or legal entity who, the first time, fixes the
sounds of a performance or of other sounds, or of a representation of sounds;
(t) “computer program” means instructions expressed in words, codes, schemes or any other form,
which is capable, when incorporated in a medium that the computer can read, of causing a
computer or any electronic or similar device having information‐processing capabilities to perform
or achieve a particular task or result;
(u) “broadcasting” means communication of a performance or a phonogram to the public by
wireless transmission;
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