Turkish copyright law

Turkish copyright law is documented in the law number 5846 on Intellectual and Artistic Works ( _tr. Fikir ve Sanat Eserleri Kanunu).

Turkey is revising its intellectual property rights laws in order to align them with WIPO standards. [cite journal
url=http://www.managingip.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1377080
accessdate=2008-07-14
title=Keeping up with WIPO
journal=Managing Intellectual Property
first=Ugur
last=Aktekin
year=2007
month=June
pages=72-73] Turkey is a party to the Bern Convention, the Rome Convention and the TRIPS Agreement. Turkish copyright law was made compliant with these treaties after its 1995 and 2001 amendments.

Amendments

Originally written in December 1951, law 5846 has been amended by the following laws:

* 2936, 1983-11-01
* 4110, 1995-06-07
* 4630, 2001-02-21
* 5101, 2004-03-03
* 5217, 2004-07-14
* 5571, 2006-12-28

In addition, a draft law has been prepared to amend articles 23, 25, 43, and 71-81, as part of the aforementioned harmonization plan. [cite web|url=http://www.wipo.int/clea/en/details.jsp?id=3844
accessdate=2008-08-05
title=Turkey: Copyright, Draft Law (Amendment)
publisher=WIPO]

Related laws

Other laws applicable to the creation of audiovisual art are [cite web|url=http://www.obs.coe.int/online_publication/reports/tr_baytan.html
title=Turkey: Law Relevant to the Audiovisual Sector
accessdate=2008-07-29
publisher=European Audiovisual Observatory
date=2001-08-03
first=Hatice Dilek
last=Baytan]

* 3984 (on the Establishment of Radio and Television Enterprises and their Broadcasts)
* 3257 (on Cinema, Video and Musical Works)
* 5680 (Press Law)
* 1117 (on the Protection of Minors against Harmful Publications)
* 4054 (on the Protection of Competition)

ee also

* List of parties to international copyright treaties
* Copyright law of the European Union

References

External links

* [http://www.wipo.int/clea/en/text_html.jsp?lang=en&id=3843 Full text of law 5846] en fr
* [http://www.euromedaudiovisuel.net/Files/2007/05/10/1178834218365.pdf Full text of law 5846] en