États-Unis d'Amérique

Saint-Kitts-et-Nevis

Droit d'auteur et droits connexes

5. Article 14.2 of the TRIPS Agreement provides that producers of phonograms are to enjoy the right to authorize or prohibit the direct or indirect reproduction of their phonograms. Article 14.2 requires that producers of phonograms are to have the right to authorize or prohibit the commercial rental to the public of originals or copies of their phonograms. Please describe how the copyright law of Saint Kitts and Nevis implements these obligations and indicate the term of protection.

Section 6 of the Act confers copyright on original sound recordings. The producer of that sound recording has the exclusive right, under s. 9, to do or authorize other persons to, inter alia copy and issue copies of the work to the public. Section 3(3) further elaborates that references to "issuing copies" in relation to sound recordings, films and computer programs means the act of issuing copies to the public by rental. The term protection, according to s. 11, is fifty years from the end of the calendar year in which it was made or where it is made available to the public before the end of that period, fifty years from the end of the calendar year in which it was so made available.