Volume 95, Number 143
Royal Gazette
18 December 2521
Section15.Copyright is transferable.
The copyright owner may transfer his copyright in whole or in part to another person and the transfer may be subjected to a time limit or may be for the entire term of copyright protection.
Transfer of copyright by any other way than succession must be done in writing.
In the event that copyright has been transferred in accordance with paragraph 2, the author still has the exclusive right to prohibit the transferee from misrepresenting, abridging, adapting, or doing any other thing to the work in question to the extent causing injury to the reputation or credit of the author.
Section16.Subject to sections 18 and 19, copyright under this Act shall last for the lifetime of the author and shall continue to exist for a period of fifty more years from the death of the author.
In the event of joint authorship, copyright over the work in question shall last for the lifetime of the joint authors and shall continue to exist for a period of fifty more years from the death of the last [surviving] joint author.
If the author or all of the joint authors die prior to publication of the work, the said copyright shall last for a period of fifty years from the publication.
