Volume 111, Issue 59A
Royal Gazette
21 December 2537
Copyright
Act,
2537 BE
Bhumibol Adulyadej R
Given on the 9th day of December 2537 BE
Being the 49th year of the present reign
Phra Bat Somdet Phra Paramin Maha Bhumibol Adulyadej has issued with his pleasure a great royal command that it be proclaimed as follows:
Whereas it is appropriate to improve the law on copyright;
Therefore, he grants with his gracious pleasure, by and with the advice and consent of the National Assembly, the enactment of the following Act:
Section1.This Act is called the "Copyright Act, 2537 BE".
Section2.This Act shall come into force upon elapse of the period of ninety days reckoned from the date of its publication in the Government Gazette onwards.
Section3.The Copyright Act, 2521 BE,[1] shall be repealed.
Section4.In this Act:
"author" means a person who produces or originates[2] a work of authorship of any kind which is a copyrighted work under this Act;
"copyright" means the exclusive right to do any act under this Act in relation to a work produced by an author;
