Abstract
Legal protection regarding copyright and related rights is granted according to the legislation in force, and the legal norms regulate the relations that appear at the creation and capitalization of literary, artistic and scientific works (copyright), of interpretations, phonograms, videograms and broadcast programs (related rights), as well as other rights that are determined by intellectual activity. The principles of protection of copyright and related rights are based on the objective form of expression, originality, automatic protection, exclusivity of rights, freedom of creation and freedom of contract. The subject of copyright relations may be legal entities, both citizens of the Republic of Moldova and persons with foreign citizenship or stateless persons. The moral right of the author is inalienable: the right to paternity, the right to names, the right to respect the integrity of the work, the right to disclose the work, the right to withdraw the work. The successors of the copyright values, only the patrimonial rights, which can be transmitted to third parties. The registration of the object of copyright and / or related rights implies the completion and submission of the application to AGEPI, the payment of the state fee, the registration of the data regarding the registration in the State Register, the issuance of the registration certificate. From legal protection on copyright and related rights are excluded theories, scientific discoveries, procedures, methods of operation, mathematical concepts, inventions contained in a work, whatever the way of taking, explaining or expressing. Likewise, the protection of copyright related rights does not extend to administrative, political or judicial acts, nor to their official translations, state symbols and official state signs, folk expressions, news of the day and various facts that represent a simple information. Enforcement of copyright and related rights is ensured through civil, administrative and criminal protection. Violation of the rights recognized and guaranteed according to the legislation in force attracts civil, contravention or criminal liability.
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