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Pellerano & HerreraAttorneys at law115reproduction or divulgation methods. It also protects independent creations derivingfrom original works, such as those resulting from adapting, translating or in anyother manner transforming the original work.Law 65-00 provides a non-limitative list of protected works, such as writtenworks (books, prospects, magazines, etc.), conferences and speeches, dramaticand musical plays, works of choreography and pantomime, musical compositions,audiovisual works, drawings paintings, architectural, sculpture, carvingand other artistic works, photographs, applied arts, maps, illustrations and plasticworks related to geography or other sciences, computer programs and databases.Furthermore,Law 65-00 protects,and regulates the exercise of related or neighbouringrights, in order to fight effectively the illegal retransmission of TV programsand the unlawful reproduction of music productions that was one of themain gaps under our previous legislation. Related rights are granted to performingartists for their performances, phonogram producers for their recordings,and broadcasters (including original broadcasts by way of cable, opticalfibre or other) for their radio and television programs.Law 65-00 protects works from authors having Dominican nationality or residingin the country, or who are nationals or residents of countries belonging to theinternational treaties ratified by the Dominican Republic, as well as works whosefirst publication has been made in the country (or in a member country of ratifiedinternational treaties) or that have been published here (or in a membercountry of ratified international treaties) thirty days after their first publication.In the absence of international treaties, protection will still be granted to foreignworks, but subject to reciprocity.b) Content of CopyrightAuthors are the original holders of intellectual property rights over their creations.Any rights granted thereafter to other parties, by virtue of law or contract, have aderivative nature.Authors have both moral and economic rights over their creations. Moral rightsentitle authors to the following:To get the credit for their creation,To object to any changes that may affect the merit of their creation,Not to publish their creation or maintain it anonymous, andTo take their creation out of circulation provided they have compensated anydamages arising therefrom.Moral rights are inherent to authors themselves. After their death, these rights(apart from the right to take the creation out of circulation) pass on to their heirs,or to the State in the absence of legal heirs.Economic rights allow authors to exploit their creation through any existing orfuture means of utilisation, publication, divulgation, copying or distribution, and togrant licenses to other parties for such purposes. Means of utilisation are independentfrom each other, and authors may thus assign their copyrights separately