Bulgaria: : Copyright Act amendments implement the orphan works Directive

• Autores: Ofelia Kirkorian-Tsonkova
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 5, 2015, págs. 7-8
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On 12 February 2015, the Bulgarian Parliament adopted amendments to the Copyright and Related Rights Act, aimed at implementing Directive 2012/28/EU on certain permitted uses of orphan works.

    The amendments, in force from 24 February 2015, closely follow the provisions of the Directive and introduce the concept of an orphan work, which previously was not regulated by Bulgarian law. The new provisions have limited scope and, according to Article 71b of the Copyright and Related Rights Act, they are applicable only to publicly accessible libraries, educational establishments, museums, archives, film or audio heritage institutions with an official address in Bulgaria and the public service broadcaster. These organisations are entitled to use orphan works only in order to achieve aims related to their public interest missions, in particular the preservation of, restoration of and provision of cultural and educational access to works and phonograms contained in their collection. They may generate revenues in the course of such uses for the exclusive purpose of covering the costs of digitising orphan works and making them available to the public.