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Federal Law with which the Copyright Act is amended 1993 Copyright Act Amendment UrhGNov 1993
Federal Law with which the Copyright Act is amended |
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| (1993 Copyright Act Amendment – UrhGNov 1993) |
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| The National Council decided: |
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| The Copyright Act, Federal Law Gazette No 111/1936, amended by the Federal Law as promulgated in Federal Law Gazette No 612/1989, shall be amended as follows: |
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| “Literary works of all kinds including computer programmes (§ 40a);” |
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| “(3) Copies put on the market upon the consent of the rightholder by means of a property transfer are not subject to the right of marketing – except as otherwise provided in § 16a. Where this consent was only given for a certain area, however, the right to distribute copies put on the market of this area outside the latter shall not be affected; this exception shall only apply to copies which were put on the market upon the consent of the person entitled thereto in a Member–State of the European Economic Community or the European Free Trade Association.” |
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“Rental and lending
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| (3) Within the meaning of this provision rental shall refer to permitting the use destined for commercial purposes for a limited time period, lending to permitting the use not destined for commercial purposes for a limited time period, by an institution open to the public (library, collection of picture or sound carriers, artotheque, and the like). |
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| (4) Paras 1 and 2 shall not apply |
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| 2. to works of applied arts (handicraft). |
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“Section VIa
Special provisions for computer programmes
Computer programmes
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| (1) Computer programmes are works in the meaning of this Law if they are the result of the personal intellectual creation of the author. |
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| (2) In this Law the term “computer programme” shall comprise all forms of expression including machine codes and material for the development of computer programmes. |
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Employees
Rights of utilization of a work
Free utilization of works
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| (2) Computer programmes may be reproduced and adapted in as far as this is required for their intended utilization by the person entitled to do so; this shall include the adaptation to the requirements of the latter. |
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| (3) The person entitled to use a computer programme may |
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| 1. Produce duplicates for saving purposes (back up copies) in as far as required for the utilization of the computer programme; |
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| 2. observe, investigate or test the functioning of the programme in order to establish the ideas and principles an element of the programme is based on, if this is done by means of loading, displaying, operating, transmitting or storing the programme, to which this person is entitled. |
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| (4) The rights according to paras 2 and 3 cannot be waived effectively; this shall not exclude agreements on the scope of the intended utilization in the meaning of para 2. |
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Decompilation
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| (1) The code of a computer programme may be duplicated and its code form translated on condition that the following conditions are met: |
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| 1. The activities are indispensable in order to obtain the necessary information for the interoperability of an independently created computer programme with other programmes; |
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| 2. the activities are performed by a person entitled to use a copy of a computer programme or on behalf of the latter by a person authorized to do so; |
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| 3. the information required for bringing about the interoperability have not yet been made easily accessible to the persons listed under Z 1; |
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| 4. the activities are limited to the parts of the programme required for bringing about the interoperability. |
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| (2) The information obtained according to para 1 may not be |
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| 1. used for other purposes than the bringing about of the interoperability of the independently created programme; |
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| 2. passed on to third parties unless this is required for the interoperability of the independently created programme; |
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| 3. used for the development, reproduction or distribution of a programme with an essentially similar form of expression or other activities infringing the copyright. |
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| (3) The right of decompiling (para 1) cannot be waived effectively.” |
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| 5. The following para 3 shall be added to § 45: |
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| “(2) The author shall be entitled to adequate remuneration for the duplication and distribution according to para 1, Z 3. Such claims can only be made by performing rights societies.” |
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“Claim to information
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| “(1a) Likewise punished shall be anyone putting on the market material exclusively intended to facilitate the illegal removal or circumvention of technical mechanisms for the protection of computer programmes or possessing the latter for commercial purposes.” |
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| (1) This Federal Law shall enter into force on March 1st, 1993, with the exception of |
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| (2) § 16a UrhG in the version of this Federal Law shall enter into force on January 1st, 1994. |
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| (5) § 40b and 40c UrhG in the version of this Federal Law shall not apply to computer programmes created before March 1st, 1993. |
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| (7) The Federal Minister of Justice shall be entrusted with the implementation of this Federal Law. |
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