Unión Europea
Albania
Derecho de autor y derechos conexos
4. Please state whether your legislation provides for a rental right and, if so, the works to which it applies.
Article 5 b) of Copyright Law stipulates that the author shall have the exclusive right of authorizing the importation of the work, with the purpose of its distribution (selling, leasing, renting, and loaning) to the public. And, further on: "the author of an audiovisual work, or any other work like phonograms, computer programs, databases, and of any other work readable in machine, has the exclusive right to authorize giving on lease of his work." Dealing with the producers of phonograms, Article 35 c) underlines that no one can lease or loan copy of the phonogram without the authorization of the producers of phonograms.