Republic of Armenia

“ Public Performance For the purpose of this Law public performance of a work shall mean the presentation of a work in an intangible form by recitation, game, song, dance or other means, by live performance as well as by means of technical devices in places where persons outside the usual circle of a family can be present, irrespective of their being in the same place at the same time or in different places at different times. ”

“ Term of Protection of Related Rights (1) The economic rights of performers emanate from the date of performance and shall run 50 years. If the fixation of a performance was lawfully published or lawfully made available to the public within this period, the rights of performer shall emanate from the date of first such publication or from the first such making available to the public, (whichever occurred earlier) and shall run 50 years.
(2) The economic rights of a producer of a phonogram emanate from the date of fixation and shall run 50 years. ”

“ A technological measure for the protection of copyright and related rights shall mean any device or their components, that in the normal course of their operation, are designed to prevent or restrict acts in respect of works or subject matters of related rights which are not authorized by holder of copyright or related rights. ”

“ Without the consent of the author and without additional remuneration a broadcasting organization has the right to make short- time audio or video recordings of the work, in respect of which it has obtained the broadcasting right, if the audio or video recording is made by that broadcasting organization through its own technical equipment and for its own programs. ”

“ Reproduction of a work for Private Purposes The reproduction of a work lawfully made public shall be permitted without the consent of the author and without remuneration exclusively for private, non-commercial use, which does not prejudice the legitimate interests of the author. ”

“ Article 13. Economic Rights Of The Author (1) Economic rights provide the economic interests of the author giving the author an exclusive right to authorize or to prohibit the use of his work or copies thereof.
The author has an exclusive right to use his work in any mode and form, as well as to authorize or prohibit third persons to use his work, particularly;
a) reproduction of a work (right of reproduction) ;
b) distribution of a work (right of distribution) ;
c) rental of the original or copies of a work (rental right) ;
d) lending of the original or copies of a work (lending right) ”

“ A work shall be considered to be made public by its first authorized public recitation, public performance, public display, publication, broadcasting or by other means of making available to the public. ”

“ Organizers of public entertainments and other users of copyright and related rights subject matters shall not refuse to sign agreements with the organization without having reasonable grounds for that refusal. ”

“ An audiovisual work is a fixed series of interrelated images, with or without sound accompaniment, which is a unique outcome of a creative activity and which by means of appropriate technical device can be viewed and heard if accompanied by sound. ”

“ The communication of a work to the public is also making it available to the public in such a way that members of the public May access to the work from the place and time individually chosen by them particularly by means of computer or similar networks. ”

“ Copyright shall not cover scientific discoveries, ideas, principles, methods, procedures, viewpoints, systems, ceremonies, scientific theories, mathematical formulas, statistical diagrams, rules of games, even if they are expressed, described, disclosed, commented in works. ”

“ Program of a broadcasting organization shall mean a body of live performance or fixed material containing images and/or sounds, or other information, meant for dissemination, which has been prepared by an air or a cable broadcasting organization, or another person on its commission and with its funds. ”

“ The persons, organizing the creation of a collective work, who publish encyclopedias, encyclopedic dictionaries, periodic and continuous collections of scientific works, newspapers, magazines and other periodicals, shall have an exclusive right to use the collective work as a whole. ”

“ Such organizations shall be established directly by authors or related rights holders and exercise the collective administration of economic rights within the frameworks of authorization granted to them by written contract. Those organizations, which represent a substantial part of right holders and have the necessary technical means and human resources for the execution of their activities, are subject to registration. ”

“ Freedom of Panorama Works which are located on streets, parks, squares and other places open for attendance can be reproduced and broadcasted, and reproduced copies can be distributed, including through internet, without permission of the author and without payment to the author, in any tangible medium and by any means and in any form. ”

“ Each of the authors of the works included as component parts in the audiovisual work, both previously existing (a novel serving as a basis for the scenario, etc.) , and created in the course of work (by the artistic director, costume designer and other persons) shall enjoy the copyright in his work. ”