New Copyright Bill in Indonesia passed

On 16 September 2014, the House of Representatives finally passed the Bill on Copyright (Copyright Bill). The Copyright Bill repeals and replaces the current copyright law, Law No. 19 of 2002 on Copyright. The Copyright Bill regulates various new topics which were not discussed in the current Copyright Law, among others as below.

Copyright as a form of movable intangible property may be encumbered and registered as collateral under fiduciary security, pursuant to Law No. 42 of 1999 on Fiduciary Security.

The Copyright Bill introduced four new works that are now protected which were not protected previously:

• translations, adaptations, arrangements, transformations, or modifications of traditional cultural expressions;