Sri_Lanka's_intellectual_property_law.pdf

Description Sri Lanka's copyright law of 1979, as amended. Superseded in 2003 by the Code of Intellectual Property Act 36 of 2003 , with highly relevant changes for duration of protection for photographic works.
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Source http://www.wipo.int/clea/en/text_pdf.jsp?lang=EN&id=2848
Author Sri Lankan government
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( Reusing this file ) 		Public domain by section 9 of itself: "Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 7 and 8, Protection shall not extend to— (a) laws and decisions of courts and administrative bodies, as well as to official translations thereof"


Public domain
Public domain
This work is in the public domain in Sri Lanka ( details ). This is because the work falls in one of the following categories defined in the Sri Lanka's Intellectual Property Act, No. 36 of 2003 :
  1. Sri Lankan folklore: Perpetual copyright. Permission to make any work derived from folklore must be sought from the Minister in charge of the subject of Culture. This right is claimed worldwide. Works falling in this category are considered unfree on Commons and are not allowed.
  2. Official text of a legislative, administrative or legal nature: No copyright.
  3. Audiovisual work: 70 years from the date on which the work was first published, or, if unpublished, 70 years from the making of the work.
  4. Anonymous works: 70 years from the date on which the work was first published.
  5. Applied art: 25 years from the date of the making of the work.
  6. Any other type of work: 70 years after death of author, or in the case of works of joint authorship, 70 years after the death of the last surviving author.

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