Resolução da Assembleia da República n.º 53/2009, de 30 de Julho de 2009
Resoluçáo da Assembleia da República n. 53/2009
Aprova o Tratado da Organizaçáo Mundial de Propriedade Intelectual sobre Direito de Autor, adoptado em Genebra em 20 de Dezembro de 1996
A Assembleia da República resolve, nos termos da alínea i) do artigo 165. e do n. 5 do artigo 166. da Constituiçáo, aprovar o Tratado da Organizaçáo Mundial de Propriedade Intelectual sobre Direito de Autor, adoptado em Genebra em 20 de Dezembro de 1996, cujo texto, na versáo autenticada em língua inglesa e a respectiva traduçáo em língua portuguesa, se publica em anexo.
Aprovada em 5 de Fevereiro de 2009.
O Presidente da Assembleia da República, Jaime Gama.
WIPO COPYRIGHT TREATY (WCT) (1996)
Preamble
The Contracting Parties:
Desiring to develop and maintain the protection of the rights of authors in their literary and artistic works in a manner as effective and uniform as possible;
Recognising the need to introduce new international rules and clarify the interpretation of certain existing rules in order to provide adequate solutions to the questions raised by new economic, social, cultural and technological developments;
Recognising the profound impact of the development and convergence of information and communication technologies on the creation and use of literary and artistic works;
Emphasising the outstanding significance of copyright protection as an incentive for literary and artistic creation;
Recognising the need to maintain a balance between the rights of authors and the larger public interest, particularly
education, research and access to information, as reflected in the Berne Convention;
have agreed as follows:
Article 1
Relation to the Berne Convention
1 - This Treaty is a special agreement within the meaning of article 20 of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, as regards Contracting Parties that are countries of the Union established by that Convention. This Treaty shall not have any connection with treaties other than the Berne Convention, nor shall it prejudice any rights and obligations under any other treaties.
2 - Nothing in this Treaty shall derogate from existing obligations that Contracting Parties have to each other under the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
3 - Hereinafter, «Berne Convention» shall refer to the Paris Act of July 24, 1971, of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
4 - Contracting Parties shall comply with articles 1 to 21 and the appendix of the Berne Convention.
Article 2
Scope of copyright protection
Copyright protection extends to expressions and not to ideas, procedures, methods of operation or mathematical concepts as such.
Article 3
Application of articles 2 to 6 of the Berne Convention
Contracting Parties shall apply mutatis mutandis the provisions of articles 2 to 6 of the Berne Convention in respect of the protection provided for in this Treaty.
Article 4
Computer programs
Computer programs are protected as literary works within the meaning of article 2 of Berne Convention. Such protection applies to computer programs, whatever may be the mode or form of their expression.
Article 5
Compilations of data (databases)
Compilations of data or other material, in any form, which by reason of the selection or arrangement of their contents constitute intellectual creations, are protected as such. This protection does not extend to the data or the material itself and is without prejudice to any copyright subsisting in the data or material contained in the compilation.
Article 6
Right of distribution
1 - Authors of literary and artistic works shall enjoy the exclusive right of authorising the making available to the public of the original and copies of their works through sale or other transfer of ownership.
2 - Nothing in this Treaty shall affect the freedom of Contracting Parties to determine the conditions, if any,
4890 under which the exhaustion of the right in paragraph 1
applies after the first sale or other transfer of ownership of the original or a copy of the work with the authorisation of the author.
Article 7
Right of rental
1 - Authors of:
i) Computer programs;
ii) Cinematographic works; and iii) Works embodied in phonograms, as determined in the national law of Contracting Parties;
shall enjoy the exclusive right of authorising commercial rental meaning of article 2 of the Berne Convention. Such protection to the public of the originals or copies of their works.
2 - Paragraph 1 shall not apply:
i) In the case of computer programs, where the program itself is not the essential object of the rental; and ii) In the case of cinematographic works, unless such commercial rental has led to widespread copying of such works materially impairing the exclusive right of reproduction.
3 - Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, a Contracting Party that, on April 15, 1994, had and continues to have in force a system of equitable remuneration of authors for the rental of copies of their works embodied in phonograms may maintain that system provided that the commercial rental of works embodied in phonograms is not giving rise to the material impairment of the exclusive right of reproduction of authors.
Article 8
Right of communication to the public
Without prejudice to the provisions of articles 11, 1), ii), 11bis, 1), i) and ii), 11ter,1), ii), 14, 1), ii), and 14bis, 1), of the Berne Convention, authors of literary and artistic works shall enjoy the exclusive right of authorising any communication to the public of their works, by wire or wireless means, including the making available to the public of their works in such a way that members of the public may access these works from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.
Article 9
Duration of the protection of photographic works
In respect of photographic works, the Contracting Parties shall not apply the provisions of article 7, 4), of the Berne Convention.
Article 10
Limitations and exceptions
1 - Contracting Parties may, in their national legislation, provide for limitations of or exceptions to the rights granted to authors of literary and artistic works under this Treaty in certain special cases that do not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work and do not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author.
2 - Contracting Parties shall, when applying the Berne Convention, confine any limitations of or exceptions to rights provided for therein to certain special cases that do not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work and do not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author.
Article 11
Obligations concerning technological measures
Contracting Parties shall provide adequate legal protection and effective legal remedies against the circumvention of effective technological measures that are used by authors in connection with the exercise of their rights under this Treaty or the Berne Convention and that restrict acts, in respect of their works, which are not authorised by the authors concerned or permitted by law.
Article 12
Obligations concerning rights management information
1 - Contracting Parties shall provide adequate and effective legal remedies against any person knowingly performing any of the following acts knowing, or with respect to civil remedies having reasonable grounds to know, that it will induce, enable, facilitate or conceal an infringement of any right covered by this Treaty or the Berne Convention:
i) To remove or alter any electronic rights management information without authority;
ii) To distribute, import for distribution, broadcast or communicate to the public, without authority, works or copies of works knowing that electronic rights management information has been removed or altered without authority.
2 - As used in this article, «rights management information» means information which identifies the work, the author of the work, the owner of any right in the work, or information about the terms and conditions of use of the work, and any numbers or codes that represent such information, when any of these items of information is attached to a copy of a work or appears in connection with the communication of a work to the public.
Article 13
Application in time
Contracting Parties shall apply the provisions of article 18 of the Berne Convention to all protection provided for in this Treaty.
Article 14
Provisions on enforcement of rights
1 - Contracting Parties undertake to adopt, in accordance with their legal systems, the measures necessary to ensure the application of this Treaty.
2 - Contracting Parties shall ensure that enforcement procedures are available under their law so as to permit effective action against any act of infringement of rights covered by this Treaty, including expeditious remedies to...
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