Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - Laws and Regulations under TRIPS Art. 63.2

Main dedicated intellectual property law or regulation (Main laws and regulations must be notified in a WTO language (English, French or Spanish). Where an authentic national text of a law or regulation is not available in a WTO language, the authentic text of that law or regulation in a national language shall be notified, in addition to the translation into a WTO language.)

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These Regulations transpose Directive 2012/28/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on certain permitted uses of orphan works. In line with the Directive, the Regulations apply to publicly accessible libraries, educational establishments, museums, archives, film or audio heritage institutions and public service broadcasters (works produced up to and including 31 December 2002). The Regulations provide for an exception to copyright law for these organizations in respect of categories of works first published in the EU that are still protected by copyright but whose authors or other right holders cannot be identified and located. The categories of works are: works in the print sector (books, journals, magazines and newspapers), cinematographic and audio-visual works, sound recordings and works embedded or incorporated in other works or sound recordings (e.g. pictures in a book). The exception to copyright law will allow these cultural organizations to digitize orphan works and make them publicly available on-line in all EU member States. The Directive also applies to unpublished works (such as letters, manuscripts, etc.) under certain conditions. These Regulations also provide for necessary amendments, on this topic, to the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 (No 28 of 2000).

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