Article 51 of the Copyright Law as changed by the Law No. 7564 dated 19 May 1992 stipulates that the provisions of this law shall apply not only to works the author of which has Albanian citizenship or lives permanently in the Republic of Albania, regardless of the country where they were published for the first time, but also to works published for the first time in Albania or in a country that is a member of an international Copyright treaty or convention to which Albania is also a signatory as well as to works published for the first time in a country that is not a member of an international Copyright treaty or convention, to which Albania is a signatory, when the works are published simultaneously in the territory of this country and in the Republic of Albania or in another country which is a signatory to the international Copyright treaty or convention.
