Copyright law of Serbia

Serbian copyright law (Serbian: Закон о ауторском и сродним правима) is officially published as the copyright law of Serbia and Montenegro on 24 December 2004, and it remains in force after the country's split under Declaration of continuation by Republic of Serbia September 19, 2006. It "regulates the rights of the authors of literary, scientific and artistic works, right of performers, right of the first publisher of a free work, rights of producers of phonograms, videograms, broadcasts and databases, as rights related to the copyright..., and the way of exercising the copyright and related rights and the judicial protection of such rights."

The law consists of eight sections:

1. Subject-matter of the law
2. Copyright
3. Related rights
4. Exercise of copyright and related rights
5. Records of works of authorship and subject-matters of related rights
6. Protection of copyright and related rights
7. Penal provisions
8. Transitional and final provisions

Scope

The law defines the "work of authorship" as an "author's original intellectual creation, expressed in a certain form, regardless of its value, purpose, size and contents". The following are considered as "works of authorship in particular":

1. Written works
2. Spoken works (lectures, speeches, orations, etc.);
3. Dramatic, dramatic-musical, choreographic and pantomime works, as well as works originating from folklore;
4. Works of music
5. Films (cinema and television);
6. Fine art works
7. Works of architecture, applied art and industrial design;
8. Cartographic works
9. Drawings, sketches, dummies and photographs;
10. The direction of a theatre play.

Exemptions

According to the Article 6 (section 2) of the Law,

1. The protection of copyright shall not apply to general ideas, principles and instructions included in a work of authorship.
2. The following shall not be deemed works of authorship:
   1. Laws, decrees and other regulations;
   2. Official materials of state bodies and bodies performing public functions;
   3. Official translations of regulations and official materials of state bodies and bodies performing public functions;
   4. Submissions and other documents presented in the administrative or court proceedings.

References

• The Law on Copyright and Related Rights

See also

• List of parties to international copyright treaties

External links

• Intellectual Property Office, Republic of Serbia - Legislation

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