Malta

Overview

‘Other photographs’ related rights

 

Overview

B 1976 L.N. 261 of 2021. COPYRIGHT ACT (CAP. 415). Copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market. Article 14. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=NIM:202104295

DSM implementation via Copyright and Related rights in the Digital Single Market Regulations, 2021, not via any amendments to the Copyright Act. See https://www.notion.so/communia/Malta-84eefd61cb9843c3adc0c16176a53797

Scope

 

Retroactivity

 

Statutory Law

Source language

English

Provision on copyright 

 

 

Revised provision on copyright 

14. Meta mandat ta’ protezzjoni ta’ xogħol artistiku viżiv ikun skada, kwalunkwe materjal li jirriżulta minn att ta’ riproduzzjoni ta’ dak ix-xogħol mhuwiex soġġett għad-drittijiet tal-awtur jew drittijiet relatati, sakemm il-materjal li jirriżulta minn dak l-att ta’ riproduzzjoni ma jkunx oriġinali fis-sens li jkun il-ħolqien intellettwali tal-awtur innifsu.

14. When the term of protection of a work of visual art has expired, any material resulting from an act of reproduction of that work is not subject to copyright or related rights unless the material resulting from that act of reproduction is original in the sense that it is

the author’s own intellectual creation.

Comments / analysis

 

Provision on related rights for “other photographs”

 

14.

When the term of protection of a work of visual art has expired, any material resulting from an act of reproduction of that work is not subject to copyright or related rights unless the material resulting from that act of reproduction is original in the sense that it is the author’s own intellectual creation.

Revised provision on related rights for “other photographs” 

 

 

Comments / analysis

 

Takeaways

Limitations for CHIs

 

Reflections

 

Sources

Copyright and Related rights in the Digital Single Market Regulations, 2021 (see EN and MT versions at https://www.notion.so/communia/Malta ): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=NIM:202104295v

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