Intellectual Property Act, No. 36 of 2003
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13. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (2), (3),
(4) and (5), the economic and moral rights shall be protected
during the life time of the author and for a further period of
seventy years from the date of his death.
Duration of
copyright.
(2) In the case of a work of joint authorship, the
economic and moral rights shall be protected during the
life of the last surviving author and for a further period of
seventy years from the date of the death of the last surviving
author.
(3) In the case of a collective work, other than a work
of applied art, and in the case of an audiovisual work, the
economic and moral rights shall be protected for seventy
years from the date on which the work was first published,
or failing publication within seventy years from the making
of the work.
(4) In the case of a work published anonymously or
under a pseudonym, the economic and moral rights shall be
protected for seventy years from the date on which the work
was first published :
Provided that, where the author’s identity is revealed or
is no longer in doubt before the expiration of the said period,
the provisions of subsection (1) or subsection (2) shall apply,
as the case may require.
(5) In the case of work of applied art, the economic and
moral rights shall be protected for twenty-five years from
the date of the making of the work.
(6) Every period provided for under the preceding
subsections shall run to the end of the calendar year in which
it would otherwise expire.
14. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (2), (3),
(4) and (5), of this section, the author who created the work
shall be the original owner of economic rights.
Original
ownership of
economic rights.
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