Article 19 Relations between Copyright and Ownership of physical Objects Copyright exists

independently of any ownership right over the physical object, on which the intellectual creation is
expressed or materialized. The relationship between the copyright and the ownership of the work is
specifically regulated by Part V of this Law. PART III CONTENT OF COPYRIGHT General Provisions Article
20 Typology of rights 1. Copyright shall include and protect the author’s personal non-property rights,
ensuring respect for the intellectual and personal qualities of his work and the property rights of the
authors in relation to their economic interests. 2. The author is entitled to remuneration for each use of
his work, unless otherwise provided for by this Act or by a contract. Section 1 Personal non-property
rights Article 21 The right of public disclosure 1. The author shall have the right to determine when and
where and under what circumstances his copyright work will be disclosed for the first time. 2. Until the
copyright work is disclosed, the author shall have the right to reveal to the public the content or
description of his work. Article 22 Right to recognition and citing of authorship 1. The author shall have
the right to be recognized and indicated as the author of the work. This right exists independently from
the ownership rights of the author, even after the transfer of its rights or obligations. Page 11 of 101 2.
The persons who publicly use a copyright work, protected under this law, shall be obliged to write and
indicate the name of the author in each copy and at each use, unless the author has declared in a
written form that he does not want to be indicated, pursuant to the nature of the work and its use. 3.
The author or his/her heir/s shall enjoy personal non-profit rights to claiming copyright coauthorship of
a work and to oppose co-authorship, for any reason set by others arbitrarily. 4. The author has the right
to decide in whose name his work will be disclosed to the public, as well as the right to remain
anonymous or use a pseudonym chosen by him. Article 23 The right of honor, personality and
reputation Despite the property rights of the author, even after the transfer of the rights in question,
the author shall have the right to oppose to any distortion, mutilation, modification or other denigrating
acts that do not respect the integrity of the work, in a manner jeopardizing his honor, personality or
reputation. Article 24 The Right of Revocation in Cases of Exploitation of Work 1. The author or their
heirs, who acquire this right, according to the civil legislation and under the provisions of this Law, shall
have the right to revoke the authorization of exploitation of his copyright work and its further use,
disclosed to public, based on granted reasons, protection of reputation, honor or other circumstances.
In this case, the author shall be obliged to compensate all damages, caused to the legitimate holder of
the authorization, as a result of the exercise of the rights referred to this paragraph. 2. The right to
revoke the consent/authorization for the exploitation of the work shall become effective from the day
that the author/heir/s deposits the monetary warranty for the compensation of damages pursuant the
provisions of this Article. 3. The user of the right of exploitation of a copyright work shall, within three
months as from the receipt of the notification of revocation of authorization, referred to in paragraph 1
of this Article, communicate to the author/heir the amount of outstanding costs incurred to him in the
preparation for the use of his work up to the day of receipt of such notification. If the holder of the right
of exploitation of a copyright work fails to do so, the notification of revocation for the exploitation of the
work shall become effective at the expiration of the time limit, referred to in this paragraph. 4. The right
referred to paragraph 1 of this law shall not be enforced in case of a work created according to an
employment contract or order, nor in the case of audiovisual works or computer programs and
databases. In the case of these works, the author shall require not to be indicated in the copies of works
or any use of it. Page 12 of 101 5. If, within ten years as from his exercise of the right of revocation of
consent/authorization, the author allows/authorizes to resume the exploitation of the work or a work
substantially similar to it, he shall be required to offer such right to renew the contract of use in advance
to the subject to whom that had the right to use the work before the exercise of this right, according to
the same criteria or substantially similar criteria’s, respectively, as agreed in the original written
contract. 6. In case, the author has no heirs, the exercise of personal non-property rights as referred in
this section, shall be determined by the provisions of Civil Code. 7. Personal non-property rights are not
subject of resignation, they are not transferable, not licensable, not alterable and not prescribed.
SECTION 2 The Exclusive Property Rights of the Author Article 25 Exclusive Property Rights 1. The
author / successor shall enjoy the exclusive property rights to benefit, authorize or prohibit the use of
the works or of copies of the works, unless otherwise provided for by the law. This exclusive property
right shall include in particular: a. The right for the reproduction of the work; b. The right for the
distribution of the work; c. The right of communication of the work to the public; and ç. The right to
create derived works. 2. Any way of exploitation of the original work or of the copies of it, without the
permission of the author/successor, or of the authorized person by the author/successor, shall be
considered illegal unless otherwise provided by this Law. Article 26 The right for reproduction The right
of reproduction shall be the exclusive property right of the author to authorize or prohibit making of one
or more copies of copyright works or subject to related rights, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly,
temporarily or permanently, by any means and in any form, including audio or video recording, as well
as for temporary or permanent storing of the work or subject to related rights, in an electronic area.
Page 13 of 101 Article 27 The Right of Distribution 1. The right of distribution is the exclusive property
right of the author to authorize or prohibit making lawfully available to the public, the originals or copies
of works or other related rights, by sale or otherwise and to offer them to the public for such intent, as
well as the import, export, and distribution of copies of the works produced with the consent of the
author. 2. In terms of this Law, a) "import" means placing in free circulation or entering in the local
market for trading purposes, of the original works or the legitimate copies fixed in all forms. b) "export"
means placing in the free market or exiting from the local market, for trading purposes, of the original
works or the legitimate copies, fixed in any form; c) "distribution" means the sale or any other means of
conveyance, for a specific service, with or without payment of the original works or their copies, as well
as offering them to the public. 3. The first transfer of ownership by the author, of the original work or his
Lawful copies by the author, or with the author’s authorization to third parties, the author loses the
exclusive right of distribution of that work in the Republic of Albania. 4. Termination of the exclusive
distribution right shall not be a reason for the termination to lease, export, import, as well as the right to
benefit from public given on loan of a work authorized under the provisions of this law. 5. In case of
collections, the termination of the right of distribution refers only to further sale. Article 28 Rental Rights
1. The rental right is the exclusive property right to enjoy or authorize the rental for a limited period of
time or to prohibit given on loan of the work of: a) the author, in respect of the original and the copies
of his work; b) The interpreters in relation to his the fixation of the performance c) The producers of the
phonogram in respect of his phonograms; ç) The producer of the first fixation of a film in respect of the
original and the copies of his film.