Copyrights can be protected under the Copyright and Authorship Protection Law No. 40 for the year 1992. The Law was implemented as of August 30, 1994.
For obtaining protection, copyrightable works will have to be deposited with the Ministry of Information and Culture. Protection is granted to authors of literary, artistic and scientific works of whatever the value or kind or purpose or way of expression. Generally, protection is provided for the works whose means of expression is writing, sound, drawing, image, motion pictures, creative titles or computer software. Translation of original works is also protected.
The duration of the protection is for the lifetime of the author plus 25 years after his death or 25 years from the date of publication in the cases of cinematographic works, works of corporate bodies, works published for the first time after the death of the author. The validity period of photographic works is 10 years from the date of publication.
