Regulations
3G. The Minister of Education, Culture and Sport may, in consultation with the
Minister of Justice, make regulations for the implementation of this Ordinance.
Copyright in Case of Unpublished Work
4. In the case of an unpublished work, the author shall be entitled to copyright to it if,
when he wrote the work, he was an Israel citizen or an Israel resident.
Moral Right
4A.—(a) The author has the right to have his name stated with his work, to an extent
and degree customary.
(b) The author is entitled that no falsification, damage or other change be made on his
work, or that no other act be performed that denigrates that work in a manner liable to injure
its author’s honor or reputation.
(c) The infringement of a right under this section is a civil wrong and the provisions of
the Civil Wrongs Ordinance (New Version) shall apply to it.
(4) The author’s right under this section shall be independent of his material right in the
work and it shall be in effect even after all or part of that right has been transferred to another.
(5) In an action under this section, the author shall be entitled to compensation in an
amount to be determined by the Court according to the circumstances of the case, even if no
pecuniary damage was proven; these provisions shall not derogate from any other power of
the Court under Chapter Five of the Civil Wrongs Ordinance (New Version).
Period of Copyright Protection
5.—(1) The copyright of anonymous and pseudonymous works shall be protected for
70 years after the date of their publication; however, if the author of an anonymous work
discloses his identity during the said period or if the pseudonym adopted by the author leaves
no doubt on his identity, then the period of protection shall be as said in section 3 of the
Copyright Act, 1911, as modified by this Ordinance.
(2) In respect of the joint work of several authors—
(i) the period during which the copyright shall be protected after the death of an author
shall begin with the death of the last surviving author;
(ii) wherever this ordinance and the Copyright Act, 1911, refers to the date of an
author’s death, read the date of the last surviving author’s death.
(3) Protection subsequent to the death of an author or to the publication of a work shall
be in effect as of the date of death or of publication, but its period under the Law shall be
counted from January 1 of the year after the death or after the publication.
(4) Notwithstanding any provision in section 3 of the Copyright Act, 1911, and subject
to the other express provisions in that act, protection after the author’s death shall be 70 years
from the date stated in subsection (3).
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