Laws
Civil Code (Section10)
Chapter 64: Related Rights
Article 1139. The Subject Matters of Related Rights
Related rights extend to performances, fixations of phonograms and films, programs of broadcasting organizations, contents of databases, typographical arrangements. For the arising and exercise of related rights there is no requirement of observation of any formalities whatsoever.
Article 1140. Subjects of Related Rights
1.The subjects of neighboring rights are the performers, phonogram producers, producers of the first fixation of a film, broadcasting organizations, makers of databases and publishers.
2.The right to a performance belongs to the performers.
3.The right to a phonogram belongs to the producer of the phonogram
4. The right to the first fixation of a film belongs to the producer of the first fixation of a film.
5. The right to broadcasting of the program belongs to the broadcasting organization that has created the program.
6. The right to the content of the database belongs to the maker of a database.
7. The right to the typographical arrangements of the editions belongs to the publisher
of that very arrangement.
8. The rights mentioned in the paragraphs 2-7 of this article may be inherently transferred to another person by the order of comprehensive succession or by the contract or by the right of re-organization of a legal entity, which is the right holder.
Article 1141. Symbols of Protection of Related Rights
The producers of phonograms Producers of phonograms for the notification of their related rights may put the symbol of protection of related rights on each copy of the fixation medium or on the containers, consisting of:
1) the Latin letter “P” in a circle (è);
2) the name or firm name of the holder of related rights;
3) the year of the first publication of the phonogram.
Article 1142. 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. If the phonogram was lawfully published or lawfully made
available to the public within this period, the rights of a producer of a phonogram
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.
3.The economic rights of producer of the first fixation of the film emanate from the date
of fixation and shall run 50 years. If the film was lawfully published or lawfully made
available to the public within this period, the rights of film producer 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.
4.The economic rights of a broadcasting organization in respect with the program
emanate from the date of first broadcast and shall run 50 years.
5.The right of publisher emanates from the date of publication and shall run 50 years.
6.The rights of a database maker shall emanate from the date of completion of the making
of the database and shall run 15 years.
If, the database is made available to the public in whatever manner before expiry of the
mentioned period, the term of protection of economic rights of the maker of the database
shall be calculated from the date of the first making available to the public.
7. The terms laid down in this Article are calculated from the first day of January of the
year following the relevant mentioned event.
Article 1143. Legal Regulation of Related Rights Relations
Related rights relations shall be regulated by the present Code and by the law of the Republic of Armenia “On Copyright and Related Rights.”
The law of the Republic of Armenia “On Copyright and Related Rights” shall be applied to relations not regulated by the present Chapter.
