Commercial and Taxation Laws › Intellectual Property Law (RA 8293, as amended by RA 9150, 9502, and 10372) › Copyright

3. Economic and Moral Rights

Copyright or Economic Rights

Copyright or economic rights shall consist of the exclusive right to carry out, authorize or prevent the following acts:

  • Reproduction of the work or substantial portion of the work;

Reproduction

Making of 1 or more copies, temporary or permanent, in whole or in part, of a work or a sound recording in any manner or form

  • Dramatization, translation, adaptation, abridgment, arrangement or other transformation of the work;
  • The first public distribution of the original and each copy of the work by sale or other forms of transfer of ownership;
  • Rental of the original or a copy of an audiovisual or cinematographic work, a work embodied in a sound recording, a computer program, a compilation of data and other materials or a musical work in graphic form, irrespective of the ownership of the original or the copy which is the subject of the rental;

Rental

Transfer of the possession of the original or a copy of a work or a sound recording for a limited period of time, for profitmaking purposes

  • Public display of the original or a copy of the work;
  • Public performance of the work; and

Definitions of Public Performance

  • For Non-audiovisual work – reciting, playing, dancing, acting or otherwise performing the work, either directly or by means of any device or process
  • For Audiovisual work – showing of its images in sequence and the making of the sounds accompanying it audible
  • For Sound recording – making the recorded sounds audible at a place or at places where persons outside the normal circle of a family and that family’s closest social acquaintances are or can be present
  • Other communication to the public of the work, e.g. online/Internet.

Communication to the public

Any communication to the public, including broadcasting, rebroadcasting, retransmitting by cable, broadcasting, and retransmitting by satellite, and includes the making of a work available to the public by wire or wireless means in such a way that members of the public may access these works from a place and time individually chosen by them