Copyright and Related Rights Law
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- Article 1In the application of this Law, the following words and expressions shall have the meaning indicated opposite each: 1 - Work: Every original literary, artistic, or…
- Article 2The protection prescribed for copyright and related rights covers Kuwaiti natural and legal persons, foreigners permanently resident in the State of Kuwait, and…
- Article 3The protection provided by this Law for authors' rights applies to original works in literature, the arts and sciences, whatever the type of such works, their manner of…
- Article 4The protection prescribed pursuant to this Law shall not apply to the following: 1 - Ideas, procedures, methods of work, methods of operation, mathematical concepts,…
- Article 5National folklore is the public property of the people, and the Council shall identify, safeguard, support, and defend it against distortion or harm to the cultural…
- Article 6The author and his universal successor shall enjoy the following moral rights in his work: First: The right to have the work attributed to its author. Second: The right…
- Article 7The author may request the Court of First Instance to prohibit the release of his work or withdraw it from circulation, notwithstanding his disposal of the right of…
- Article 8The Council shall exercise the moral rights provided for in Article 6 if the Kuwaiti author dies without an heir, and also in the case of works whose author is unknown.…
- Article 9The author, his universal successor and the legatee shall enjoy an exclusive right to authorize or prohibit any use or exploitation of his work in any manner whatsoever,…
- Article 10The Council may exercise the economic rights in works whose Kuwaiti author dies without an heir or legatee, and in works whose author is unknown and which were first…
- Article 11The author may receive the consideration in cash or in kind that he considers fair in return for disposing to another of one or more of the rights of economic…
- Article 12Without prejudice to the exceptions to copyright provided for in this Law, the transfer of economic rights relating to works consisting of computer programs,…
- Article 13The author's disposal, in any form whatsoever, of the original copy of his work shall not entail the transfer of any of his economic rights to the transferee, unless…
- Article 14The author's economic rights in his published work may be attached if a judgment is issued against him by the court. The economic rights in works whose author dies…
- Article 15Every disposition by an author of the entirety of his future intellectual output shall be absolutely null and void. Index of the Law 537 Home Page Copyright and Related…
- Article 16Performers and their universal successors shall enjoy moral rights in the performance that are neither assignable nor subject to attachment, in accordance with the…
- Article 17Performers shall enjoy the exclusive right to authorize or prohibit the following: First: Their unfixed live performances: 1 - Broadcasting their unfixed performances…
- Article 18Producers who have been authorized by performers to make the first fixation of an audiovisual work on any tangible material shall have the exclusive right to: Index of…
- Article 19Producers of sound recordings shall enjoy the following exclusive rights: 1 - Direct or indirect reproduction of their sound recordings by any method or in any form…
- Article 20Broadcasting organizations shall enjoy the following exclusive economic rights: 1 - Fixation of their own materials and programmes prepared for broadcasting. 2 -…
- Article 21The provisions regulating the author's disposition of economic rights contained in this Law, and those contained in the Convention, shall apply to all dispositions by…
- Article 22Without prejudice to the provision of Article 6 of this Law, the term of protection of moral rights expires upon the expiry of the economic rights provided for in this…
- Article 231 - The term of protection of an author's economic rights in his work shall be his lifetime and fifty years after his death, calculated from the first of January of the…
- Article 241- The term of protection for performers shall be fifty years from the first of January of the year following the year in which the performance took place, or from the…
- Article 25The natural or legal person who directed the creation and assumed responsibility for completing the collective work shall alone exercise the author's moral and economic…
- Article 26Each author of a joint work shall be considered an equal partner in the economic rights unless otherwise agreed in writing. In such case, none of them may independently…
- Article 27If a work is created for the account of another person, the copyright shall belong to the author who created it, unless otherwise agreed in writing. Without prejudice to…
- Article 28For works that do not bear their author's name or that bear a pseudonym, their publisher shall be deemed authorized by the author to exercise the rights prescribed for…
- Article 29A person who has made a portrait of another may not publish, display, or distribute its original or copies thereof without the permission of the person depicted, unless…
- Article 30The rights of the author of a photographic work shall not have the effect of preventing others from taking new photographs Law Index 541 Home Page Copyright and Related…
- Article 31Without prejudice to the author's moral and economic rights under the provisions of this Law, a third party may use the work in certain special cases without the…
- Article 32The exceptions to the author's economic rights provided for in this Law shall apply to the economic rights of holders of related rights insofar as this does not conflict…
- Article 33Any interested Kuwaiti natural or legal person may request the President of the Council, or his authorised representative, to grant him a non-exclusive licence,…
- Article 34Holders of copyright and related rights and their particular and universal successors may entrust the administration of all rights provided for in this Law and the…
- Article 35The court of urgent matters shall have jurisdiction, upon the application of interested parties, to take the following measures or other appropriate precautionary…
- Article 36Employees designated by the Chairman of the Council upon nomination by the Library, and in respect of whom a decision is issued by the competent minister granting them…
- Article 37The General Administration of Customs may, on its own initiative or upon the right holder's request, order, by a reasoned decision, that customs release be withheld for…
- Article 38The holder of the right in a literary, artistic or scientific work subject to the provisions of this Law may deposit copies of the work with the Library at his own…
- Article 39The Executive Regulations shall specify the fees payable and the procedures to be followed pursuant to this Law and its Executive Regulations.
- Article 40Interested parties may lodge grievances against decisions refusing deposit, registration and the issuance of certificates thereof in accordance with the rules. In the…
- Article 41The penalties set out in this Chapter shall apply without prejudice to the exceptions set out in Articles 31, 32 of this Law.
- Article 42The Public Prosecution shall have exclusive authority to investigate, dispose of and prosecute all offences arising from the application of the provisions of this Law.…
- Article 43Without prejudice to any more severe penalty prescribed by another law, anyone who, without written permission from the author, the holder of a related right, or their…
- Article 44Without prejudice to any more severe penalty prescribed by another law, anyone who commits any of the following acts shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not…
- Article 45Confiscation shall be ordered of the copies that are the subject of the crime or derived therefrom, as well as the equipment and tools used in its commission. The court…
- Article 46In the event of recidivism in committing any of the offences referred to in Articles 43, 44 of this Law within five years from the date of the final judgment, the…
- Article 47Anyone who prevents the employees provided for in Article 36 from performing their work or withholds any information or records that they request to inspect shall be…
- Article 48The provisions of the accompanying Law concerning Copyright and Related Rights shall apply.
- Article 49Law No. 22 of 2016 concerning Copyright and Related Rights, Law Index 548 Home Page Copyright and Related Rights Law Law No. 75 of 2019 Promulgating the Copyright and…
- Article 50The competent minister shall issue the Executive Regulations and the decisions necessary to implement the provisions of the accompanying Law within one year from the…