With respect to the scope of protection, Article 5 of the draft Law on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights provides:
An author and his successors shall have the exclusive right to financially exploit his work by any means and shall have in particular the exclusive right to authorize or prohibit the following acts in relation to his work:
a) Publishing, broadcasting and producing the work to the public;
b) Reproduction by all means including photography, cinematography and recording;
c) Translation, adaptation, arrangements or other transformation of the work;
d) Use of a copy or more of the work for the purpose of rental or lending to the public or any other act in relation to making the work available to the public;
e) Public performance of the work by reading or recital or acting or singing or any other mean; and
f) Distribution to the public by sale, rental, public lending or otherwise of the original or a copy of the work that has not already been authorized by the author.
By virtue of Articles 28 and 29 of the draft Law, the financial rights of an author are protected during his lifetime and for 50 years after his death, or the death of the last person of the authors remaining alive if there is more then one author. The 50 years period is calculated starting from the first day of the Gregorian calendar year following the actual date of death of the author or the last author remaining alive as the case may be.
By virtue of Article 31 of the draft Law, the rights with respect to a work which does not bear the author's name or which bears a pseudonym shall be protected for 50 years starting from the first day of the Gregorian calendar year following the year during which the work was published or made available to the public for the first time, whichever comes last, unless the identity of the author is known or revealed in which case the term of protection shall be for his life time and 50 years thereafter starting from the first day of the Gregorian calendar year following the year during which he died.
Article 30 provides that the financial rights relating to authors of a collective work, other then applied art, shall be protected for 50 years starting from the first day of the Gregorian calendar year following the year during which the work was published or made available to the public for the first time which ever comes last, and where the author is a natural person, the term shall be calculated according to the rule provided under Article 28 and 29 referred to above. Article 30 further provides that the rights relating to a work published for the first time after the death of the author shall lapse after 50 years starting from the first day of the Gregorian calendar year following the year during which the work was published or made available to the public for the first time, whichever comes last.
