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Law No. 005/PR/2003 of May 2, 2003 on Protection of Copyright, Neighboring
Rights and Expressions of Folklore
Courtesy translation provided by WIPO, © 2012
Part 1: Copyright and Protection of Expressions of Folklore
Chapter 1: General provisions
Section I: General provisions and scope of application
Article 1: Under the present Law:
1 – "work" means an original creation or all the creations produced by an artist, in
particular those produced using a particular technique;
2 – "original work" means a work whose author can be identified by virtue of its
characteristics or its form;
3 – "derivative work" means a work based on preexisting elements;
4 – "work of joint authorship" means a work in whose creation a number of natural
persons have collaborated;
5 – "composite work" means a work in which a preexisting work is incorporated without
the collaboration of the author of the preexisting work;
6 – "collective work" means a work created by a number of authors at the initiative and
under the authority of a natural or legal person who or which edits, publishes or discloses
it in his name and in which the contributions of the various authors participating in its
creation merge in the whole for which they were created, so that it is impossible to
attribute to each of them a separate right in the whole work once completed;
7 – "audiovisual work" means a work consisting of a series of related images giving an
impression of movement, whether or not accompanied by sounds, and, if accompanied by
sounds, capable of being heard;
8 – "broadcasting" means the wireless transmission of sounds or of images and sounds or
of representations thereof for the purposes of reception by the public; transmission of
this nature by satellite; and the transmission of encrypted signals, where the means of
decryption are provided to the public by the broadcasting organization or with its
consent;
9 – "communication of a work to the public" means the fact of making a work accessible
to the public by means other than the distribution of copies;