- ACT No. 2 OF 12 MAY 1961 RELATING TO COPYRIGHT IN LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC AND ARTISTIC WORKS, ETC., WITH SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, LATEST OF 16 APRIL 1999
- Chapter 1. The object and substance of the copyright
- Chapter 2. Limitations on copyright
- General provisions
- Making copies for private use
- Making copies for use in educational activities
- Photocopying in institutions, commercial enterprises, etc
- Fixations made in health institutions, etc
- Making copies in archives, libraries and museums
- Making copies for the disabled
- Collective works for use-in education, etc
- Distribution of copies
- Exhibition of copies
- Performance in an educational context, etc.
- Quotation
- Reproduction of works of art
- News report in a broadcast or film
- Public proceedings, right of information, etc.
- Alteration of buildings and works of applied art
- Special provisions regarding broadcasting, etc.
- Common provisions regarding compulsory licences, extended collective licences, commissions, etc.
- The organizations' right of action
- Chapter 3. Transfer of copyright
- Chapter 4. Term of protection of copyright
- Chapter 5. Other rights
- Chapter 6. Various provisions
- Chapter 7. Penal sanctions, compensation and confiscation
- Chapter 8. The scope of the Act.
- Chapter 9. Entry into force of the Act and amendment of other statutes
- Proposition No. 15 to the Odelstlnget regarding the Act relating to amendments in the Copyright Act, etc.
- Proposition No. 54 to the Odelsting regarding the Act relating to amendments of the Copyright Act, etc
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ACT NO.2 OF 12 MAY 1961 RELATING TO COPYRIGHT IN LITERARY. SCIENTIFIC AND ARTISTIC WORKS,'ETC., WITH SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, LATEST OF 16 APRIL 1999
Chapter 1 The oh.lect and substance of the copyright
§ 1. Any person who creates a literary, scientific or artistic work shall have the copyright therein. By such a work is meant in thif\ Act a Iitera.ry, scientific or artistic work of any kind, irrespective ofthe manner or f()rm of expression, such as: 1) writings of all kinds, 2) oral lectures, 3) works for stage perfonnance,dramatic and musical as well as choreographic and pantomimic; also radio plays, 4) musical works, with or without words 5) cinematographic works, 6) photographic works, 7) paintings, drawings, graphic and similar pictorial works, 8) sculpture of aU kinds) . 9) architectural works, drawings and models as well as the building itself: 10) pictorial \toven tissues and articles of artistic handicraft and applied art) the prototype as well as the work itself: . I ]) maps, also drawings and graphic and plastic: representations or portrayals of a scientific or technical nature, 12) computer programs, 13) translations and adaptations ofthe above-mentioned works. In the case of photographic pictures which are not a literary, scientific or artistic work, section 43 ashall upply.
§ 2. Subject to the limitations laid down in this Act, copyright shall confer the exclusive right to dispose ofu literary, scientific or artistic work hy producing copies thereof and hy making it available to the puhlic, be it in the original or an altered form, intranslution or l1daptation, in another literary or artistic form, or hy other technical means.
The transferring of a work to any device by which it can be reproduced shall also be considered a production of copies.
A work is made available to the public when it is perfonned outside private premises, or when copies of the work are offered for sale, rental or lending, or otherwise distributed or displayed outside such prQTIises.
~ 3. Both when copies of a literary, scientific or artistic work are produced, and when it is made available to the public, the author is entitled to have his name stated in the manner re4uired by proper'usage.
If another person has the right to alter a literary, scientit1c or artistic work or to make it available to the public, this must not be done in a manner or in a context prejudicial to the author's literary, scientific or artistic reputation or to his individuality, or prejudicial to the reputation or individuality of the work itself.
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The author may not waive his rights under the fir~t and second paragraphs, unless the
use of the work in question is limited in nature and extent.
If the work is made available to the public in such prejudicial fonn as is stated in the
second paragraph, the uuthor, even ifhe has given valid consent to the use of the work, shalt
have the right to demand either that he is not to be named as the author, or that it is stated in a
satisfactory manner that the alterations made do not derive from him. This right may not be
waived by the author.
§4. The author may not object to other persons using his scientific, literary or artistic work
in such a manner that new and independent works M'e created. The copyright in the new and
independent work shall not be 'subject to the copyright in the work that has been used.
Any person Who translates or adapts a literary, scientific or artistic work or converts it
into another iitcrary or artistic fmm shall have the copyright in the work in that form, but may
not dispose of it iinmch a manner as to infringe the copyright in the original work.
§ ~. Any person who by combining several literary, scientific or artistic works., or parts thereof, creates a collective literary, scientific or artistic work shall have the copyright in the collective work,but this right shall in no way restrict the copyright in the iridividual works of which the collcctlve work consists.
Unless otherwise agreed,