20° “Minister”: the Minister in charge of industry.
Article 6: Definitions of terms applicable to copyrights and related rights
For the purposes of provisions of this Law:
1° “performing artists”: actors, singers, musicians, and other persons who sing, deliver,
declaim, play in, or otherwise perform literary and artistic works or expressions of
folklore;
2° “author”: natural person who created work;
3° “communication to the public” : the transmission with or without wires images, sound,
or both, of a work, a performance, a song or a phonogram in such a way that the images
or sounds can be perceived by persons outside the normal circle of a family and its closest
social acquaintances at a place or places so distant from the place where the transmission
originates that, without the transmission, the images or sounds would not be perceivable
and, further, irrespective of whether the persons can receive the images or sounds at the
same place and time, or at different places and at different times individually chosen by
them;
4° “compilation” : work arising from any choice or arrangement of a whole or a part of
literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or data;
5° “to circumvent technological protection measures”: to avoid, suspend the use of or
destroy such measures; and such include the descrambling a scrambled work or other
work from related rights and decrypting an encrypted work or object of related right;
6° “public performance contract” : contract by which the author of a work of mind or the
right owner grants authorization to physical person or legal entity of making public
performance of the aforesaid work on conditions that the contracting parties shall
determine;
7° “copy”: result of any act of reproduction;
8° “copy of a phonogram”: medium containing directly or indirectly fixed sounds from a
phonogram and that incorporates the whole or substantial part of fixed sounds on this
phonogram;
9°
“public domain” : set of works that can be used by whoever without authorization of the
author, either because of the end of the period of protection, either because of the absence
of international instrument assuring their protection in the case of the foreign works;
10° “related rights”: copyrights of artist performers, producers of phonograms or of
broadcasting organizations without wires;