the Royal Government of Cambodia

“ The author has right to oppose all forms of distortion, mutilation or modification of the content of his/her work, which would be prejudicial to his/her honor or reputation. Article 21 Economic right is the exclusive right of the author to exploit his/her own work through the authorization of reproduction, communication to the public, and creation of derivative work. ”

“ SECTION 3 Rights of the authors Article 18 The author of a work shall enjoy an exclusive right on that work, which shall be enforceable against all persons. These rights include moral right and economic right. ”

“ The establishment of collective management organization of author's right, performer's right, and phonogram producer's right or video producer's right must require the recognition of the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts. ”

“ Article 36 In case of individual author contributes his/her separated work in the framework of establishing a collective work, those individual authors can separately make the exploitation on their own contribution, unless having any contradicted provisions, providing that that author doesn't cause any damages to the exploitation of that collective work. ”

“ Article 22 Except for having contradictory provisions in the contract, the economic rights on a computer program and its encyclopedia documentation created by one or more employees in the exercise of their duties or following the instructions of their employer are property of the employer who is alone entitled to exercise them. ”

“ Rental or public lending of the original or a copy of an audiovisual work, or a work embodied in a phonogram, a computer program, a database or a musical work in the form of musical notation. d. Public distribution by sale, rental of the original or a copy of the work that has not already been subject to a sale or transfer of ownership authorized by the owner of copyright; e. Importation into the country, the reproduction copies of his/her works. f. Reproduction of work. g. Public performance of the work. h. Public display of the work i. Broadcasting of the work ”

“ The importation or exportation of phonogram, cassette, or video cassette without authorization of the performer or phonogram producer or video producer or broadcasting organization is punishable by 01 (one) month to 03 (three) months and/or 2,000,000 (two million) Riels to 10, 000, 000 (ten million) Riels fine. Double punishment is applied in case of repeated offense. ”

“ The complainant may file petition to have the defendant being subjected to the compensation of damages, to the redress of moral injury, and to the return of the disputed equipment or materials, as well as to the return of any benefits deriving from that illegal act. ”

“ Article 37 The transfer of right for exploitation on the author's work may be done wholly or partly. The author will receive the benefit from this transfer in accordance with the provisions of the transfer contract.
SECTION 8 Deposit and Registration of Work Article 38 Every work is automatically protected. The authors or right-holders may deposit their works at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts. ”

“ The provisions in this Law shall also apply to performers, phonogram producers, and broadcasting organizations that are eligible for protection by virtue of and in accordance with any international treaties or other international agreements to which the Kingdom of Cambodia is a party.
CHAPTER II Copyrights SECTION 1 Works Article 4 To be reputed as originals are works, which are the true intellectual creations of their authors.
Article 5 A work is deemed created, independently of all public disclosure, by the sole fact of the realization, even if incomplete, of the author’s idea. ”

“ Paragraph (2) of this ;Article is not applicable, when the pseudonym adopted by the author discloses the author's true name.
Article 15 One or more natural person who realize (s) the intellectual creation of audio-visual work is (are) deemed to be the author/authors of that audio-visual work.
Unless having contradictory evidence, the following co-authors of the audiovisual work are:
a) . The director. b) . The author of scenario. d) . The author of the adaptation. e) . The author of the spoken text. f) . ”