“1. If the work was created on behalf of another person, the rights in the work
shall revert to the author unless there is a written agreement stipulating
otherwise.
2. Notwithstanding subparagraph (a), and in any other Law, if an employee
created during his employment a work related to the activities or business of the
employer, or uses the experiences, information, instruments or articles of the
employer under the employee’s own disposal in his attempt to create such work,
the rights in the work shall be to the benefit of the employer, unless otherwise
agreed upon in writing.
3. The rights in the work shall be to the benefit of the employee if the rights
created by the same are not related to the business of the employer, and the
employee does not use the experiences, information, instruments or raw materials
of the employer in his attempt to create the work, unless otherwise agreed upon
in writing.”
8) Article 11 is suspended.
9) Article 15 is amended to read as follows: “Copying may not be made of
serialized novels, short stories or other literary, artistic or scientific works
published by their authors in the newspapers or periodicals, except with their
permission.”
10) A new provision is supplemented between Article 15 and Article 16 to read as
follows: “Exceptions to exclusive rights of the author shall be confined to certain
special cases which do not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work and do
not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the right holder.”
11) Article 20 is amended to read as follows:
“1. The author’s economic rights provided for in this Law shall be protected
throughout the lifetime of the author and for 50 years from the date of his death.
2. The economic rights relating to works of joint authorship shall be protected
throughout the lives of all co-authors and for 50 years from the death of the last
survivor.
3. Where the copyright holder is a legal entity, the economic rights relating to
the authors of collective works, other than authors of works of applied art, shall
be protected for 50 years from the date on which the work was published or made
available to the public for the first time, whichever comes first. Where the
copyright holder is a natural person, the protection period shall be calculated
according to the rule stipulated in subparagraph (a) and (b).
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