² Article 212: Free ephemeral recording by broadcasting organizations Notwithstanding the provisions of article 200 of this Law, any broadcasting organization may make, for the purpose of its own broadcasts and by means of its own facilities, an ephemeral recording of any work which it is authorized to broadcast without the authorization of the author or other owner of copyright and without separate remuneration. All copies of it shall be destroyed within six (6) months of the making or within any longer term agreed to by the author of the recorded work; however where such agreement doesn’t exist, a copy of the work may be preserved to the extend of keeping archives or of constituting documentation. Article 213: Free public performance Notwithstanding the provisions of article 200 of this Law, there shall be permitted without authorization of the author and without payment of remuneration, to perform publicly a work: 1° during the official or religious ceremonies, where the public performance is made on a non-profit basis 2° if it is teaching activities of a teaching establishment, only the staff and students or the parents of students or other people so linked directly to activities of the establishment are entitled to attend to a such performance. Article 214: Free importation of a work for personal purposes Notwithstanding the provisions of article 200 of this Law, the importation of a copy of a work by a natural person for his or her own personal purposes shall be permitted without the authorization of the author or other owner of copyright. Article 215: Free reproduction of the work for visually impaired persons Notwithstanding the provisions of article 200 of this Law, it shall be permitted without the authorization of the author or other owner of copyright: 1° to reproduce a published work for visually impaired persons in an alternative manner or form which enables their perception of the work, and; 2° to distribute the copies exclusively to those persons, provided that the work is not reasonably available in a form enabling its perception by the visually impaired persons; and the reproduction and distribution are made on a non-profit basis. The distribution in Rwanda is also permitted in case the copies have been made abroad and the conditions mentioned in paragraph one have been fulfilled. SECTION 3: DURATION OF COPYRIGHTS PROTECTION Article 216: Duration of moral rights protection The moral rights have no limitation in time. They are imprescriptibly inalienable apart from transmissible to the author’s heirs after his death or conferred to third person by testamentary disposition.

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