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Law on Copyright and Related Rights, North Macedonia

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Year of Version 2010 Dates Entry into force: September 8, 2010 Adopted: August 23, 2010 Type of Text Main IP Laws Subject Matter Copyright and Related Rights (Neighboring Rights), Enforcement of IP and Related Laws, Traditional Cultural Expressions, IP Regulatory Body Notes The notification by the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the WTO under Article 63.2 of TRIPS states:
'The notified text is the new Law on Copyright and Related Rights adopted in 2010 regulating copyright protection in general and is the only regulatory framework in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on copyright and related rights. The legal text regulates the right of authors in their copyright works, the rights of performers, phonogram producers, video gram producers (film producers), broadcasting organizations, publishers and database makers in their subject-matter of related rights (hereinafter: related rights), the administration and the protection of copyright and related rights and the application of the Law.'

The new copyright and related rights law harmonizes its provisions with the directives of the European Union, in particular in the parts/chapters on enforcement of civil law protection.
It clarifies and improves the regime of exercising collective management from all aspects, including inspection and misdemeanors - for non-submitting data and information from the use. Infringements of copyright and related rights from the penal point of view are regulated by the Penal Code, while infringements from the copyright violation aspects of the trade of goods and services, as a condition and criteria for their exercising, are left to the other adequate laws regulating trade aspect relations.


Available Texts Main text(s) Main text(s) Macedonian Закон за авторското право и сродните права PDF HTML English Law on Copyright and Related Rights PDF HTML
Related Legislation Is amended by (5 text(s)) Is amended by (5 text(s))
Law on Amendments to the Law on Copyright and Related Rights (MK042)
Law on Amendments to the Law on Copyright and Related Rights (MK041)
Law on Amendments to the Law on Copyright and Related Rights (MK040)
Law on Changing and Amending the Law on Copyright and Related Rights (MK016)
Correction of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights (MK039)
Is implemented by (1 text(s)) Is implemented by (1 text(s))
Decision on the Amount of the Single Equitable Remuneration of Copying in Private Use (MK028)

Historical Versions Repeals (8 text(s)) Repeals (8 text(s))
Law on Alteration and Amendment of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights (MK030)
Law on Amendments to the Law on Copyright and Related Rights (MK036)
Law on Copyright and Related Rights (MK029)
Law on Copyright and Related Rights (MK038)
Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Law on Copyright and Related Rights (MK001)
Law on Amendments to the Law on Copyright and Related Rights (MK037)
Law on Copyright and Related Rights (MK004)
Law on Copyright and Related Rights (MK035)

WTO Document Reference
IP/N/1/MKD/4
IP/N/1/MKD/C/2

WIPO Lex No. MK015