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The Law of the Republic of Armenia "On Copyright and Related Rights"

[ unofficial translation ]

Chapter 1. General Provisions

Article 1. The tasks of the law on copyright and contiguous rights

Article 2. Legislation on copyright and contiguous rights

Article 3. International contracts of the Republic of Armenia

Article 4. General conceptions used by the law

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Chapter 2. Copyright

Article 5. Works as copyright objects

Article 6. Objects not protected by this law

Article 7. The territorial application of copyright

Article 8. The origin of copyright. The presumption of authorship. 

Article 9. The correlation between copyright and property right

Article 10. Coathorship

Article 11. The private non-property rights of the author 

Article 12. The property rights of the author or another copyright owner 

Article 13. Free use of the works 

Article 14. Using the works for personal purposes

Article 15. Using the works through reprographic reproduction

Article 16. Free use of the works located in places of free attendance

Article 17. Free broadcasting of short-term sound and video recordings by organizations

Article 18. Free reproduction of computer programs

Article 19. Copyright of official works

Article 20. Copyright of audiovisual works

Article 21. Copyright of works of fine arts

Article 22. Copyright of compound works

Article 23. Copyright of derivative works

Article 24. Copyright of interview

Article 25. Copyright of collective works

Article 26. Copyright inheritance and its validity 

Article 27. Conveyance of property rights according to author’s contracts

Article 28. The conditions and forms of an author’s contract

Article 29. The responsibilities of the parties while breaching an author’s contract

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Chapter 3. Contiguous rights

Article 30. The subjects of contiguous rights

Article 31. The order of the protection of contiguous rights

Article 32. The conditions of the protection of contiguous rights

Article 33. Performer’s rights

Article 34. The rights of a phonogram creator

Article 35. The rights of a broadcast organization

Article 36. The restriction of the rights of a performer, a phonogram creator, a broadcasting organization

Article 37. Using the phonogram created for commercial purposes 

Article 38. The validity of contiguous rights

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Chapter 4. Management of property rights

Article 39. The creation of organizations, administering property rights on a collective basis

Article 40. The activities of an organization, administering property rights on a collective basis

Article 41. The functions and responsibilities of an organization, administering property rights on a collective basis

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Chapter 5. The protection of copyright and contiguous rights

Article 42. The infringement of copyright and contiguous rights

Article 43. The protection of copyright and contiguous rights

Article 44. The ways of ensuring the lawsuit on the infringement of copyright and contiguous rights

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Chapter 6. Final provisions

Article 45. Enforcement of the Law President of the Republic of Armenia

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L. Ter-Petrosian

May 27, 1996

Yerevan

ЗР-197

 

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