The Serbian copyright act ( sr, Закон о ауторском и сродним правима) was published as the
copyright
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, educatio ...
act of
Serbia and Montenegro on 24 December 2004, and it remains in force after the country's split under the "Declaration of Continuation by
Republic of Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...
", September 19, 2006.
Contents
The act consists of eight sections:
#Subject-matter of the act
#Copyright
#
Related rights
In copyright law, related rights (or neighbouring rights) are the rights of a creative work not connected with the work's actual author. It is used in opposition to the term "authors' rights". ''Neighbouring rights'' is a more literal translation ...
#Exercise of copyright and related rights
#Records of works of authorship and subject-matters of related rights
#Protection of copyright and related rights
#Penal provisions
#Transitional and final provisions
Scope
The act defines the "work of authorship" as an "author's
original intellectual creation, expressed in a certain form, regardless of its value, purpose, size and contents". The following are considered as "works of authorship in particular":
# Written works
# Spoken works (lectures, speeches, orations, etc.);
# Dramatic, dramatic-musical, choreographic and pantomime works, as well as works originating from folklore;
# Works of music
# Films (cinema and television);
# Fine art works
# Works of architecture, applied art and industrial design;
# Cartographic works
# Drawings, sketches, dummies and photographs;
# The direction of a theatre play.
Exemptions
According to the Article 6 (section 2) of the act,
#''The protection of copyright shall not apply to general ideas, principles and instructions included in a work of authorship.''
#''The following shall not be deemed works of authorship:''
## ''Laws, decrees and other regulations;''
## ''Official materials of state bodies and bodies performing public functions;''
## ''Official translations of regulations and official materials of state bodies and bodies performing public functions;''
## ''Submissions and other documents presented in the administrative or court proceedings.''
See also
*
List of parties to international copyright treaties
Below is a list of countries which have signed and ratified one or more multilateral international copyright treaties. This list covers only multilateral treaties (i.e., treaties by more than two countries). It does not include bilateral treat ...
References
The Law on Copyright and Related Rights* Tiede/Bogedain, "Introduction to the Copyright law of the Republic of Serbia" ("Einführung in das Urheberrecht der Republik Serbien"), in WiRO 2012 (German Law Journal), vol. 1, pp. 13–18 (in German language)
External links
Intellectual Property Office, Republic of Serbia - Legislation
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