- Chapter 1. General Principles
- Chapter 2. Copyright
- Article 4. Scope of copyright
- Article 5. Subject matter of copyright
- Article 6. Works being the subjects of copyright
- Article 7. Parts of works, derivative and compilation works that are the copyright subjects
- Article 8. Materials that aren't the copyright subjects
- Article 9. Rights for drafts of official documents, symbols and marks
- Article 10. Copyright emergency. authorship presumption.
- Article 11. Copyright marks
- Article 12. Co-authorship
- Article 13. Copyright on derivative work
- Article 14. Copyright on compilation work
- Article 15. Copyright on audiovisual work
- Article 16. Authors of interview
- Article 17. Rights of persons organizing the works creation
- Article 18. Personal non-property rights of author
- Article 19. Property rights of author
- Article 20. Peculiarities of some property rights of author
- Article 21. Right to hire
- Article 22. Deposition of works
- Article 23. Access right to works of visual art. artist resale royalty
- Article 24. Copyright restriction
- Article 25. Reproduction of works for personal advantage without author's sanction and without payment of remuneration
- Article 26. Free use of works with in indication of author's name
- Article 27. Use of works by reprographic reproduction
- Article 28. Free use of works permanently located at places open for free attendance
- Article 29. Free public performance of works
- Article 30. Use of works for the performance of inquiry, preliminary investigation, administrative and court proceedings
- Article 31. Free record of short-term use, performed by the organizations of on-air broadcasting
- Article 32. Free reproduction and adaptation of computer software programs or database
- Article 33. Payment of remunerations for personal advantage reproduction
- Article 34. Copyright for works for hire
- Article 35. Duration of copyright
- Article 36. Transfer of copyright by inheritance
- Article 37. Transfer of work for public domain
- Article 38. Copyright agreement
- Article 39. Copyright agreement terms
- Article 40. Specific features of copyright agreement on creation and use of audiovisual work
- Article 41. Commissioning contract
- Article 42. Form of copyright agreement
- Chapter 3. Related rights
- Article 43. Related rights' scope
- Article 44. Subject matter of related rights
- Article 45. Parties of related rights
- Article 46. Related right marks
- Article 47. Performance rights
- Article 48. Executer rights assignment
- Article 49. Right on hire of execution record
- Article 50. Right of phonorecord producer
- Article 51. Remuneration for use of phonorecord
- Article 52. Rights of organization of on-the-air and cable broadcasting
- Article 53. Restriction of rights of executor, producer of phonorecord, or the organization of on-the-air or cable broadcasting
- Article 54. Related rights duration
- Article 55. Transfer of related rights subjects to the public domain
- Chapter 4. Collective management of property rights
- Article 56. Organizations, controlling the property rights on the collective basis
- Article 57. Activity of organizations, controlling the property rights on collective basis
- Article 58. Rights of organizations, controlling the property rights on collective basis
- Article 59. Responsibilities of organizations, controlling the property rights on collective basis
- Article 60. Control over the organizations' activity, controlling the property rights on collective basis
- Chapter 5. Copyright and related rights protection
- Article 61. Responsibility on infringement of legislation on copyright and related rights
- Article 62. Copyright and related rights infringement
- Article 63. Technical facilities of copyright and related rights protection
- Article 64. Information on copyright and related rights
- Article 65. Copyright and related rights security methods
- Article 66. Confiscation of pirated copies of works and subjects of related rights
- Chapter 6. Final provisions
LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
ON COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS
ADOPTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE CHAMBER ON MARCH 23, 2006 APPROVED
BY THE SENATE ON JUNE 9, 2006
Chapter 1. General Principles
Article 1. Aim of this law
The aim of this law is the regulation of relations, arising in connection with creation and use of scientific, literary and artistic works, (copyright), performances, phonorecords, and transmissions of on-the-air and cable broadcasting organizations (related rights).
Article 2. Legislation about copyright and related rights
Legislation about copyright and related rights consists of this law and related legislation statutory.
If by the international treaty of the Republic of Uzbekistan established the other rules than those, which are provided in legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan on copyright and related rights, in this case the rules of the international treaty are applied.
Article 3. Basic concepts
In this law are applied the following basic terms:
copy of work- the copy of work, made in any material form;
public demonstration of works -display of original or copy of the work directly or on the screen with the help of film, slide, television frame or by the other hardware facilities well as the display of separate shots of audiovisual work without observance of their sequence in place that is open for public, or at the site where present the wide circle of people, not being the members of the same family;
disclosure of work - action realized by the author's consent that for the first time makes the work available for public notice by its publication, public display, public performance, on-air transmission or by the other way,
audiovisual works - work consisting of fixed series of images connected among themselves (with accompanying or un-accompanying of sound), meant for the visual and audio (in case of sound accompaniment) perception with the help corresponding hardware facilities, including the works of cinematography and all works products expressed by the facilities of similar cinema (TV-and video films, filmstrips, slide-films and other works), irrespective of their initial or subsequent fixing;
producer of audiovisual work- natural or legal person, taking the initiative and responsibility for production of such work;
bringing to the public - announcement of works or related rights' subjects to the public via wired or wireless communication facilities in the extent that the users of telecommunications systems can access to them from any place and in any time of their own choice;
communicate to the public - on-the-air transmission of works or related rights' subjects, disclosure across the wire, and their disclosure by any other ways (except for the distribution of copies) for acoustical and (or) visual perception by public, representatives of which are not in place of announcement, irrespective of that whether the works or related rights' subjects being available by such way perceived by them;
record - fixation of sounds and (or) images with the help hardware in some material form, allowing to realize their numerous perception, reproduction or disclosure;
execution - performance of execution (including the works of popular art), phonorecords, execution, performance by game, recitation, singing, dance in alive execution or by hardware;
executor - actor, singer, musician, dancer or another natural person, who acts, sings, reads, recites, dances, interprets, plays on musical instrument or by other way performs the work of literature or art (including the works of public art), as well as the director-producer of performance and conductor;
announcement across the wire - announcement of works or related rights' subjects for public by cable, wires or with the help of similar facilities;
works of decorative and applied art - two-dimensional or three-dimensional work of art, originals or copies of which are used as the subjects of practical use or transferred on such subjects, including the works of vernacular art or products made by industrial way;
database - data aggregate (articles, calculations, etc .), expressed in objective form and systematized in such way that these data could be found and processed with the help of computing devices (further - computers);
author - natural person by whose creativity is created the work;
public performance - performance of works or related rights' subjects for acoustical and (or) visual perception by execution or any other form of announcement, directly or without help of hardware, in place that is open for public; or in place where present the wide circle of people, not being the members of same family;
hire - provision of the original or copies of works or the related rights' subjects for the temporary use for the purpose of extraction of income;
reprographic reproduction - facsimile reproduction in any size and in any form of one or more copies of originals of written and others works, or their copies by the photocopying or with the help of other hardware, except for the cases of manufacturing of reproductions of works of figurative art with application of type-setting printed forms. The reprographic reproduction not includes the storage or reproduction of established copies in digital form, except for the cases of creation of temporary copies, stipulated with the features used for reprographic reproduction of hardware;
retransmission - simultaneous on-the-air transmission or announcement across the wire the transmission of one organization of on-the-air or cable broadcasting by the other organization of terrestrial and cable-casting;
reproduction - manufacturing of one or more copies of works or related rights' subjects, or their parts by any way and in any material form, including the manufacturing in three dimensions of one or more copies of two-dimensional product and in two dimensions in one or more copies of three-dimensional products, record into the memory o) computer, and other electronic devices;
phonorecord - any exceptional audio record of some execution, other sounds, except for the audio record included into the audiovisual product,
copy of phonorecord - copy of phonorecord on any tangible medium, made directly or it is indirectly from phonorecord and including the all sounds or part of sounds, fixed in this phonorecord ;
producer of phonorecord - legal or natural person taking the initiative and responsibility for the first audio record of execution or other sounds;
works of popular art- fairy tales, songs, dances, works of decorative-applied art and other results of art and amateur national creativity, not having a concrete author;
phonorecords - issue of copies of works, record of execution or phonorecord under the consent of author of work, executor or producer of phonorecord in quantity sufficient for satisfaction of reasonable needs of public proceeding from the character of work, record of execution or phonorecord;
on-air transmission - announcement of works or related rights' subjects for the public by their transmission on radio or television, including through the satellites (except for the cable television). during the on air transmission of works or related rights' subjects through satellite, under the meaning of on-air transmission we understand the reception of signals from the ground station to the satellite; and the transmission of signals from satellite, by the means of which the work or related rights' subjects can be announced to the public irrespective of their actual reception by the public,
organization of on-the-air or cable broadcasting - person, taking the initiative and responsibility for the on-the-air transmission or performance through cable, and realizing them in an established procedure;
program of organization of on-the-air or cable broadcasting - transmission created by the organization of on-air and cable broadcasting herself, as well as on her order and for account of her means by the other organization;
copyright owner - author or his successors concerning the copyright, executor or his successors, manufacturer of phonorecord , organization of on-air or cable-casting concerning the related rights, as well as the other legal or natural persons, receiving the right on use of works or related rights' subjects under the agreement or other argument, specified by this law.
Chapter 2. Copyright
Article 4. Scope of copyright
In compliance with this law the copyright is issued to:
author's works or other initial copyright owners, being the citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan or having the permanent place of residence in the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
works for the first time published in the Republic of Uzbekistan, irrespective of citizenship and permanent place of stay of their authors;
works, protected in the Republic of Uzbekistan in compliance with international treaties of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The work is considered as published for the first time in the Republic of Uzbekistan, if within thirty days after the date of first publication beyond the limits of the Republic of Uzbekistan was published in the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
At provision of work protection on territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan in compliance with the international treaties of the Republic of Uzbekistan the author of work is determined under the law of state, on the territory of which take place the legal circumstance, being used as the basis for copyright possession
Article 5. Subject matter of copyright
Copyright is distributed to the works of science, literature and art, being the results of creative activities, irrespective of designation and merit of a work, as well as the style of its expression.
copyright is distributed both for proclaimed and unproclaimed, being in some objective form:
written (manuscript, typewriting, note record and etc.);
oral (public pronouncing, public execution and etc.);
sound or video recording (mechanical, magnetic, digital, optical, and etc.);
images (figure, draft, picture, plan, design, film-, tv-, video- or photo frame, and etc.);
volumetric-spatial (sculptural, model, model, construction, and etc.);
another forms.
Copyright is issued for the form of expression, but not for the ideas, principles, methods, processes, systems, ways or concepts as proper.
Article 6. Works being the subjects of copyright
Subjects of copyright are the following:
literary works (literary-art, scientific, educational, publicistic, and etc.);
dramatic and scenery works;