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2. it shall be deemed that economic rights and other rights of the author to a database and to
a collective work, are assigned exclusively and without limitations to the employer, unless
otherwise provided by contract.
Chapter IV
SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR COPYRIGHT WORKS
Section I
Audiovisual works
Article 103
Definition
Audiovisual works according to this Act, are cinematographic films, television films, animated
films, short music-videos, advertising films, documentaries and other audiovisual works,
expressed by means of sequence of related moving images, with or without incorporated
sound, irrespective of the nature of the medium in which the said works are embodied.
Article 104
The right of audiovisual adaptation
(1) The right of audiovisual adaptation is the exclusive right to transform or include a preexisting
work in an audiovisual work.
(2) It shall be deemed that, by making a contract of audiovisual adaptation, the author of a
pre-existing work had assigned to the film producer, exclusively and without limitations, the
right of transformation and inclusion of the pre-existing work in an audiovisual work, his
economic rights and other rights of the author in this audiovisual work, its translations, its
audiovisual transformations and to photographs made in connection with the production of the
audiovisual work, unless otherwise provided by contract.
(3) Regardless of the provisions of the foregoing paragraph, the author of a pre-existing work
shall retain:
1. the exclusive right to further transformation of the audiovisual work into another artistic
form;
2. the exclusive right to a new audiovisual adaptation of the pre-existing work, however, only
after the expiry of ten years from the making of the contract mentioned in the above
paragraph;
3. the right to claim equitable remuneration from the film producer for each rental of
videograms of an audiovisual work.
(4) Author of a pre-existing work cannot waive the rights mentioned in the foregoing
paragraph.