WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION 
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DU COMMERCE 
ORGANIZACION MUNDIAL DEL COMERCIO IPIN/l/HRV/C/ll Add.l 
29 May 2001 
Council for Trade-Related Aspects of 
Intellectual Pro pert y Rights (01-2671) 
Original: English/ 
anglais/ 
inglés 
MAIN DEDICATED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LA WS AND REGULATIONS 
NOTIFIED UNDER ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE AGREEMENT 
CROATIA 
Addendum 
The present document reproduces the texe of the following laws and regulations, as notified by Croatia under 
Article 63.2 of the Agreement (see document IPIN/lIHRV/l): 
Page 
The 1999 Law on the Amendments ofthe Copyright Law 2 
Unofficial Consolidated Text of the Copyright Law and the Law on the Amendments of the Copyright 16 
Law of1999 
Conseil des aspects des droits de propriété 
intellectuelle qui touchent au commerce 
PRINCIPALES LOIS ET RÉGLEMENTATIONS CONSACRÉES À LA 
PROPRIÉTÉ INTELLECTUELLE NOTIFIÉES AU TITRE 
DE L'ARTICLE 63:2 DE L'ACCORD 
CROATIE 
Addendum 
Le présent document contient le texte! des lois et réglementations ci-après, notifiées par la Croatie au titre de 
l'article 63:2 de l'Accord (voir le document IPIN/l/HRV/l): 
Loi de 1999 portant modification de la Loi sur le droit d'auteur 
Texte non officiel regroupant la Loi sur le droit d'auteur et la Loi de 1999 portant modification 
de la Loi sur le droit d'auteur 
Consejo de los Aspectos de los Derechos de Propiedad 
Intelectual relacionados con el Comercio 
PRINCIPALES LEYES y REGLAMENTOS DEDICADOS A LA 
PROPIEDAD INTELECTUAL NOTIFICADOS EN VIRTUD 
DEL PARRAFO 2 DEL ARTicULO 63 DEL ACUERDO 
CROACIA 
Addendum 2 
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En el presente documento se reproduce el texto! de las siguientes leyes y reglamentos, que Croacia notifico de 
conformidad con 10 dispuesto en el parrafo 2 dei articulo 63 dei Acuerdo (véase el documento IPIN/l/HRV /1): 
Ley de 1999 de Modificaciones a la Ley de Derechos de Autor 2 
Texto refundido oficioso de la Ley de Derechos de Autor y de la Ley de 1999 de Modificaciones a la Ley de 16 
Derechos de Autor 
! In English only. The texts in the original language are available for consultation by interested Delegations at the 
WTO Secretariat./En anglais seulement. Les délégations intéressées peuvent consulter les textes dans leur langue d'origine, 
au Secrétariat de l'OMC./En inglés solamente. Las delegaciones interesadas podran consultar en la Secretaria de la OMC los 
textos en su idioma original. IPIN/lIHRV/C/lIAdd.l 
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The Law on the Amendments of the Copyright Law 
Article 1 
In Article 2 of the Copyright Law ("Official Gazette of the Republic of 
Croatia", Nos. 53/91, 58/93 and 9/99 -final draft) after paragraph 3, paragraphs 4, 5, 
and 6 shall be added reading as follows: 
"An author's work shaH be considered to be published if it has been made 
accessible to the public in the manner whatsoever, at will of the author or other entitled 
person. 
The public, within the meaning of the provisions ofthis Law, shaH mean a large 
number of persons outside the usual narrow circle of persons closely connected by 
farnily or friendly relations. . 
Public exploitation of an author' s work shall comprise any exploitation of the 
work accessible to the public or its exploitation in the area accessible to any person. 
Article 2 
In Article 3, paragraph 2, subparagraph 1 shall be amended to read as foHows: 
" -written works of any kind, including computer programs". 
Subparagraph 12 shaH be de1eted. 
Article 3 
Article 4 shaH be amended to read as follows: 
"Collections of author's works, data or other material, whether in machine 
readable or other form, which by reason of the selection or arrangement of their 
contents constitute individual intellectual creations shaH as such, enjoy copyright 
protection. 
The protection enjoyed by the collection referred to in paragraph 1 of this 
Article shall not extend to its content and shaH be without prejudice to any copyright 
subsisting in the works, data or material itself." 
Article 4 
Article 3 0 shall be amended to read as follows: 
"The author shall have the exclusive right to authorise the publication, 
reproduction or multiplication of the work, putting into circulation the original or the 
copies of the work, including the importation thereof, the presentation, performance, 
alteration or the exploitation of the work in any other form, unless otherwise provided 
by this Law. 
The exclusive right of putting into circulation referred to in paragraph 1 of this 
Article, shall be exhausted throughthé:rirst sale of the original or copies of the IPIN/lIHRV/C/lIAdd.l 
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author' s work or through any other transfer of property right relating thereto, done in 
the Republic of Croatia, with the author' s authorisation, concerning such original or 
such copy of the work. 
The provision referred ta in paragraph 2 of this Article shaH not prejudice the 
author' s right ta authorise the importation of the original or the copies of the work into 
a particular State, unless otherwise provided for by the international treaty binding the 
Republic of Croatia." 
Article 5 
After Article 30, Article 30a shall be added, reading as folIows: 
"Article 30a 
The authors of the computer programs, cinematographic works and works 
analogous to them referred .to in Article 3, paragraph 2, subparagraph 6, of this Law, 
and of the works fixed on s6und carriers (phonograms) shalI have the exclusive right to 
authorise the rentaI of the originals or the copies ofthose works. 
The provision referred ta in paragraph 1 of this Article shall not apply ta the 
rentaI of computer programs if the program itself is not an essential abject of the 
rentaill
• 
The exclusive right of rentaI referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall not 
be exhausted with respect ta the original or the copies of the work respectively, which 
have been put into circulation with the author' s authorisation through sale or in any 
other way." 
Article 6 
Articles 35, 42, 43, 44, 45, and 46 shall be deleted. 
Article 7 
In Article 47, paragraph 1, subparagraph 5), the word "reproduction" shall be 
replaced with the ward "publication". 
Article 8 
Article 81 shall be amended ta read as follows: 
"Authors' economic rights shaIllast during the author's life and seventy years 
after his death, and if such rights belong jointly ta the collaborators in the creation of 
the author' s work, this term shall be counted from the death of the last deceased 
collaborator. 
Author's economic right in an anonymous author's work and in an author's 
work published under a pseudonym shaIllast seventy years from the publication of the 
work. If a pseudonym leaves no doubt ,f.egarding the identity of the author or if the IPIN/lIHRV/C/lIAdd.l 
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author reveals his identity, the author's economic right shaH last as long as it would 
have lasted if the author's work had been published under the name of the author. 
If the holder of the author's economic right, within the meaning of Article 24 of 
this Law, is a legal entity, the copyright shaH last for seventy years as from the 
publication of the work or seventy years respectively as from the creation a computer 
program. 
The terms referred to in this Article shaH begin with J anuary 1 of the year 
following immediately the year in which the author died, or as the case may be, the 
year in which the work was published or created respectively. 
Article 9 
Articles 82, 83, 84, 85 and 87 shall be deleted. 
Article 10 
Article 90 shall be amended to read as follows: 
l'The activity of administering copyrights may be, with the authorisation of the 
State Intellectual Property Office (hereinafter: the Office), carried out by associations 
of authors and other copyright holders as weIl as by other legal entities specialised for 
the administration of copyrights. 
The administration of copyright carried out by the association of authors or 
other specialised legal entity referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shaH require the 
power of attorney given by the author or other copyright holder. 
Exceptionally, copyrights in public performances of non-scenic musical or 
literary works, including the rights referred to in Article:32 and Article 36 of this Law 
(petits droits), may be administered by the association of authors even without the 
power of attorney of the author or other copyright holder. 
The Office shaH give authorisation referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, if 
the association of authors or, as the case may be, other legal entity, meet the criteria of 
professional knowledge necessary for carrying out activities relating to the 
administration of copyrights prescribed in the Regulations by the Director of the 
Office. 
If the association of authors or other legal entity specialised for the 
administration of copyrights cease to meet the prescribed criteria for carrying out such 
activity, the given authorisation shall be put out of effect." 
Article Il 
In Article 91, the second sentence reading: "If the Croatian Radio and 
Television broadcasting is concerned, the amount of the remuneration determined in 
the general act of the authors' organization shall be authorized by the Ministry of 
Culture. ", shaH be deleted. 
Article 12 Article 97 shaH be amended to read as foHows: IPIN/l/HRV/C/l/Add.l 
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liOn the proposaI of the author, or other copyright holder, or their association, 
or other legal entity specialised for the administration of copyrights, whereby it is made 
likely that the concerned copyright was infringed or that the infringement is imminent, 
the court may order: 
1) the provisional seizure or withdrawal from circulation of articles or means 
respectively, infringing the copyright, or used for the infringement thereof, or which 
resulted from the infringement of the copyright, or which may be used as evidence of 
the infringement thereof; 
2) the prohibition of the continuation of activities already started that would 
infringe copyright or the prohibition of the continuation of activities infringing it. 
If there is a likelihood that the later provision of evidence on infringement of 
copyright could be difficult or impossible, or if there is a likelihood of irreparable 
damage, or ifthere is a likelihood that the provisional measures laid down in paragraph 
1 of this Article would not be ef(ective, the court shaH order such measures, without 
the prior notification of the other party to that effect. 
The procedure concerniq.g the proposaI for ordering provisional measures shaH 
be urgent. 
The corresponding provisions of the Law on Enforcement shaH be applied to 
any matter concerning the ordering of provisional measures, not regulated by this 
Law". 
Article 13 
In Article 104, paragraph 1 shaH be amended to read as foHows: 
Il If not otherwise provided by this Law, the performer has the exclusive right to 
authorise: 
1) radio or television broadcast of his performance; 
2) communication to the public of his performance by means of a loud-speaker 
or other technical devices from the room or place the performance is taking place; 
3) sound or visual, or sound and visual fixation of the performance; 
4) direct or indirect reproduction of his fixed performance in its entirety or in 
parts; 
5) putting into circulation of the original or the copies of his fixed performance 
including the importation and the rentaI thereof. 
After paragraph l, paragraph 2 shaH be added reading as follows: 
The provisions of Article 30, paragraphs 2 and 3, and Article 30a, paragraph 3, 
ofthis Law shaH apply to the performers' rights in the'corresponding way. 
The former paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 shaH become paragraphs 3, 4, and 5. 
Article 14 
Article 105 shaH be deleted. 
Article 15 IPINIlIHRV ICI] 1 Add.l 
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Article 107 shall be amended to read as tollows: 
"If the fixed performance which has been put into circulation is used for the 
radio or television broadcasting or for other communication to the public (secondary 
use), the performer shall be entitled to a remuneration." 
"In the absence of the contract for broadcasting or other communication to the 
public of the performance or in case the contract doesn't fix the amount of the 
remuneration, the association of performers may obtain the remuneration for the 
performer in the amount fixed by that association in its Regulations." 
Article 16 
In Article 113, number "20" shall be replaced with the word "fifty". 
Subparagraph 3) shall be deleted. 
Article 17 
Article 116 shall be amended to read as follows: 
"The activity of administering performers' rights shaH be, with the authorisation 
of the State Intellectual Property Office, carried out by the associations of performers 
and other holders of the performers' rights as weil as by other legal entities specialised 
for the administration of performers' rights. 
The Office shall give the authorisation referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, 
if the association of performers or, as the case may be, other legal entity meet the 
criteria of professional knowledge necessary for carrying out activities relating to the 
administration of performers' rights prescribed in the Regulations by the Director of 
the Office. 
For the administration of performers' rights the association of performers or 
other specialised legal entity referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, shaH need the 
power of attorney given by the performer, or by other holder of performers' rights." 
If the association of performers or other legal entity specialised for the 
administration of performers' rights cease to me et the prescribed criteria for carrying 
out su ch activity, the given authorisation shaH be put out of effect. 
Article 18 
In Article 119, paragraph 2, subparagraph 1) the ward "plaintiff" shaH be 
replaced with the word "defendant". 
Paragraph 3 shaH be amended to read as follows: 
"On the proposaI of the performer or other holder of the performers' rights, or 
their association, or other legal entity specialised for the administration of performers' 
rights, whereby it is made likely that the performer's right has been infringed, or that 
the infringement is imminent, the court may order: IPINIIIHRV/CIIIAdd.l 
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1) the temporary seizure or withdrawal from circulation of the objects or means 
respectively infringing the performers' rights or the infringement of the performers' 
rights, or resulting from such infringement, or the objects or means respectively whicp 
may serve as evidence of the committed infringement of the performers' rights; 
2) the prohibition of the continuation of activities already started which might 
infringe the performers' rights, or the prohibition of the continuation of activities 
infringing the performers' rights". 
After paragraph 3, paragraphs 4, 5, and 6 shaH be added reading as foHows: 
"If there is a risk that the later provision of evidence concerning the 
. infringement of the performers' rights could be difficult or impossible, or if there is a 
risk of irreparable damage, or if there is a risk that the provisional measures laid down 
in paragraph 3 ofthis Article wouldn't be effective, the court shaH order such measures 
without previously notifying the other party to that effect". 
The procedure concerning the request for ordering provisional measures shaH 
be urgent. 
The corresponding provisions of the Law on Enforcement shaH be applied to aH 
other matters concerning the or~iering of provisional measures not regulated by this 
Law". 
Article 19 
After Article 120, parts shaH be added reading as follows: 
Part Two A 
ruGHTSOFTHEPRODUCERSOFPHONOGRAMS 
Article 120a 
"Producer of phonograms shaH be considered the person who first fixes the 
sounds of a performance or other sounds. 
If not otherwise provided by this Law, producers of phonograms shaH have the 
exclusive right of giving authorisations for: 
1) the direct or indirect reproduction, in whole or in part, of their phonograms; 
2) putting into circulation of the original or copies of their phonograms, 
including the importation and rentaI thereof; 
In cases referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article, producers of phonograms 
shaH have the right to a remuneration, if not otherwise. provided by this Law or by a 
contract. 
Producers of phonograms shaH also have the right to a remuneration in the case 
where the phono gram which is put into circulation is used for the radio or television 
broadcast or for other communication to the public (secondary use). 
The rights of the producers of phonograms shaH last for fifty years, counting 
from the end of the year in which the phonogram was published, and if it has not been 
published, from the end of the year in which the fixation took place. 
The provisions referred to in Article 30, paragraphs 2, and 3, Article 30a, 
paragraph 3, and Articles 106, 115, 116, 117, and 119 ofthis Law shaH apply to the 
rights of the producers ofphonograms in a corresponding way. IP/N/1/HRV/C/1/Add.l 
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The foreign producers of phonograms shaH have the rights prescribed by this 
Law within the framework of the obligations assumed by the Republic of Croatia under 
international treaties or on the basis of the de facto reciprocity. 
The rights of the producers of phonograms shaH not, in any way, prejudice the 
rights of authors or the rights of performers". 
Part Two B 
RlGHTS OF THE BROADCASTING ORGANIZATIONS 
Article 120b 
"If not otherwise provided by this Law, a broadcasting organization has the 
exclusive right to authorise: 
1) the re-broadcasting of their broadcasts by wire or wireless means; 
2) the fixation oftheir broadcasts; 
3) the reproduction of fixations oftheir broadcasts; 
4) the communication to the public of their television broadcasts, if such 
communication is accessible to the public against the payment of an entrance fee. 
Broadcasting is, within the meaning of this Law, any transmission by wire or . 
wireless means or by satellite intended for the public reception of sounds, or of images 
and sounds, or the representation thereof, including the transmission by the encrypted 
satellite signal where the means for decrypting such a signal are provided to the public 
by the broadcasting organization or with its authorisation. 
In cases referred to in paragraph 1 ofthis Article, the bro~dcasting organization 
shaH have the right to a remuneration, if not otherwise prescribéd by this Law or by a 
contract. 
The rights of the broadcasting organizations shall last for fi ft y years, counting 
from the end of the year in which the broadcasting took place. 
The provisions referred to in Article 106 and 119 of this Law shaH apply, in a 
corresponding way, to the rights of the broadcasting organizations. 
The foreign broadcasting organizations shaH have the rights prescribed by this 
Law within the framework of the obligations assumed by the Republic of Croatia under 
international treaties or on the basis of the de facto reciprocity. 
The rights of the broadcasting organizations shaH no t, in any way, prejudice the 
rights of authors, the rights of performers or the rights of the producers of 
phonograms." 
Part Two C 
SUPERVISION AND ADMINISTRATIVE MEASURES 
Article 120c IPIN/IIHRV/C/IIAdd.l 
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Supervision over the work of associations referred to in Articles 90 and 116 of 
this Law shall be carried out by the Inspection for Copyright and Related Rights in the 
State Intellectual Property Office. 
The supervision referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article may be carried out by 
other government employees authorised by the Director of the Office. 
In the course of the control referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article the 
supervisor shaH be entitled to inspect any documentation relating to the activity of 
administering copyrights, performers' rights and the rights of the producers of 
phonograms. 
If, in the course of the control, the supervisor finds out that the association 
carries out the activity of administering copyrights, or performers' rights, or the rights 
of the producers of phonograms contrary to the issued authorisation, he shaH, in a 
decision, order the remedy of the found deficiencies within the fixed time limit. 
In the case referred to in paragraph 4 of this Article, the supervisor shaH submit 
a request for the institution of the magistrate court proceedings regarding the 
misdemeanor referred to in Article 129a, or 129b ofthis Law." 
Article 120d 
The supervision of an importation or transfer across the border line of the 
original or of the copies of the author's work, of the fixed performance or of the 
phono gram shaH be carried out by the competent customs authority. 
On the request of the right holders referred to in this Law, the competent 
customs authorities shaIl, under conditions and in the manner provided for by the 
customs provisions, suspend the release into free circulation of unauthorised copies of 
the authors works, fixed performances, or phonograms respectively. 
The competent customs authority referred to inpiragraph 1 of this Article shall 
bring criminal charges regarding the commitment of a cri minaI act, or shall file a 
request for the institution of the proceedings regarding the misdemeanor respectively, 
to the competent State authorities. Il 
Article 20 
Articles 121, 122, 123, and 124 shaH be deleted. 
Article 21 
After Article 124, Article 124a and 124b shall be added reading as follows: 
"Article 124a 
"Whoever without the authorisation of the lawful distributor of the encrypted 
satellite signal, manufactures, assembles, modifies, imports, exports, sells, rents or 
otherwise distributes a tangible or intangible device or system for decoding such a IPIN/1/HRV/C/1/Add.l 
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signal, knowing or having reason to know that the device or the system serves 
primarily for decoding an encrypted satellite signal, 
shaH be punished for a criminal act by a fine or by imprisonment up to three 
years (Article 120b, paragraph 2). 
If the commitment of a criminal act referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article 
has resulted in a substantial financial gain or has caused a substantial damage, and if the 
perpetrator has acted with the aim of acquiring such financial gain or causing such 
damage, she/he 
shaH be puni shed by imprisonment from 6 months up to five years. 
The objects intended or used for the commitment of a cri minaI act or resulting 
from the commitment of a criminal act referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article 
shaH be seized and destroyed. 
Article 124b 
Whoever receives ~n encrypted satellite signal that has been decoded without 
the authorisation of its lawful distributor and further distributes such a signal, knowing 
or having reasons to know that such a signal is decoded without authorisation, 
shall be punished for a cri minaI act by a fine (Article 120b, paragraph 2). 
If the commitment of a criminal act referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article 
has resulted in a substantial financial gain or has caused a substantial damage, and if the 
perpetrator has acted with the aim of acquiring such financial gain or causing such a 
damage, she/he 
shaH be punished by a fine, or by imprisonment up to three years." 
Article 22 
Article 125 shaH be amended to read as foHows: 
"Any legal entity shaH be punished for a misdemeanor by a fine amounting from 
5.000,00 up to 50.000,00 kunas ifit: 
1) without the author' s authorisation, and under its own name or under the 
name of another publishes, presents, performs, transmits or otherwise communicates to 
the public somebody else's work or aHows it to be done (Article 27); 
2) without the author' s authorisation destroys, deforms, distorts or otherwise 
modifies the author's work, without the author's authorisation, or uses it in a manner 
which is offensive to the author's honour or reputation (Article 27); 
3) without indicating the name or the pseudonym of the author, except where 
the author wants to be anonymous, publishes, presents, performs or otherwise 
communicates to the public his work (Article 28); 
4) without the authorisation of the author or other holder of copyright, the 
association of authors or other legal entity specialised for the administration of 
copyrights referred to in Article 90, paragraph 1 ofthis Law, where such authorisation 
is required under the provisions of this Law, or, contrary to their prohibition, 
publishes, reproduces or multiplies, imports or distributes the original or the copies of 
the work, presents, performs, fixes on a material surface, broadcasts, communicates 
through mass media, translates, adapts, arranges, or otherwise ait ers the author's work 
or uses it in any other form (Article 30); IPIN/1/HRV/C/1/Add.l 
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5) without the authorisation of the author or other holder of copyright, the 
association of authors or other legal entity specialised for the administration of 
copyrights referred to in Article 90, paragraph 1 of this Law, where such authorisation 
is required under the provisions of this Law, or, contrary to their prohibition rents the 
original or the copies of the computer program, the cinematographic and analogous 
work or of the work embodied in the phonogram (Article 30a). 
The responsible person in a legal entity shall be also punished for the 
misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article by a fine amounting from 
5.000,00 up to 50.000,00 kunas. 
If the misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article has been 
committed by a natural person, she/he shall be puni shed by a fine amounting from 
1.000,00 up to 5.000,00 kunas. 
Article 23 
Article 126 shall be amended to read as follows: 
liA legal entity shaH be punished for a misdemeanor by a fine amounting from 
5.000,00 up to 50.000,00 kunas ifit: 
1) without the performer' s authorisation, and under its name or under the name 
of another, publishes, presents, performs, transmits or otherwise communicates to the 
public somebody else's performance or allows it to be done (Article 103, paragraph 3); 
2) without indicating the name or the pseudonym of the performer, except 
where the performer wants to be anonymous, publishes, presents, transmits or 
otherwise communicates to the public his performance (Article 103, paragraph 3); 
3) without the performer's authorisation, destroys, deforms, distorts, or 
otherwise modifies his fixed performance, or uses it in'a manner which is offensive to 
the performer's honour or reputation (Article 103, paragraph 3); 
4) without the authorisation of the performer or other holder of the performer's 
right, the association of performers, or other legal entity specialised for the 
administration of the performers' rights referred to in Article 116, paragraph 1 of this 
Law, where such authorisation is required under the provisions of this Law, or, 
contrary to their prohibition, broadcasts or communicates the performance to the 
public, fixes the performance, reproduces the fixed performance, imports, distributes or 
rents the original or copies of the fixed performance (Article 104); 
The responsible person in a legal entity shaH be also punished for the 
misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article by a fine amounting from 
5.000,00 up to 50.000,00 kunas. 
If the misdemeanor referred to in patagraph 1 of this Article has been 
committed by a natural person, she/he shall be punished by a fine amounting from 
1.000,00 up to 5.000,00 kunas" 
Article 24 
After Article 126, Article 126a and 126b shaH be added reading as foHows: 
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liA legal entity, which without the authorisation of the producer of a 
phono gram, where such authorisation is required under the provisions of this Law, or, 
contrary to their prohibition, reproduces, imports, distributes or rents the original or 
the copies of the phonogram (Article 120a, paragraph 2), shaH be puni shed for a 
misdemeanor by a fine amounting from 5.000,00 up to 50.000,00 kunas; 
The responsible person in a legal entity shaH be also puni shed for the 
misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article by a fine amounting from 
5.000,00 up to 50.000,00 kunas. 
If the misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article has been 
committed by a natural person, she/he shaH be puni shed by a fine amounting from 
1.000,00 up to 5.000,00 kunas. 
Article 126b 
The legal entity shaH be punished for a misdemeanor by a fine amounting from 
5.000,00 up to 50,000,00 kupas, ifit: 
1) without the authorisation of the broadcasting organization, where such 
authorisation is required under the provisions of this Law, or contrary to its 
prohibition, re-broadcasts or fixes its broadcast, reproduces the fixation of its 
broadcast or communicates to the public its television broadcast (Article 120b, 
paragraph 1); 
2) without the authorisation of the lawful distributor of the encrypted satellite 
signal manufactures or assembles, modifies, imports, exports, sells, rents or otherwise 
distributes a tangible or intangible device or system for decoding such a signal, if such 
a device or system is primarily used for decoding the en~rypted satellite signal (Article 
120b, paragraph 2); .-
3) receives an encrypted satellite signal that has been decoded without the 
authorisation of its lawful distributor or further distributes such a signal (Article I20b, 
paragraph 2). 
The responsible person in a legal entity shaH be also puni shed for the 
misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article by a fine amounting from 
5.000,00 up to 50.000,00 kunas. 
If the misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article is committed by a 
natural person she/he shall be punished by a fine amounting from 1.000,00 up to 
5.000,00 kunas." 
Article 25 
Article 127 shall be amended to read as follows: 
"A precautionary measure shall be ordered comprising the seizure of the 
objects intended or used for, or resulting from, the commitment of misdemeanors 
referred to in Articles 125, 126, I26a and 126b, of this Law, irrespective of whether 
they are the property of the perpetrator or not. 
The decision relating to the misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this 
Article shaH order the destruction of the seized objects. Il Article 128 shaH be amended to read as foHows: IPIN/lIHRV/C/lIAdd.1 
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liA legal entity which doesn't submit complete information on the performance 
or on the presentation of the work to the association of performers or to other legal 
entity specialised for the administration of performers' rights (Article 94), shaH be 
punished for a misdemeanor by a fine amounting from 3.000,00 up to 30.000,00. 
The responsible person in the legal entity shaH be also puni shed for the 
misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article by a fine amounting from 
3.000,00 up to 30.000,00 kunas. 
If the misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article is committed by a 
natural person she/he shaIl be punished by a fine amounting from 1.000,00 up to 
5.000,00 kunas." 
Article 27 
Article 129 shaIl be amended to read as foHows: 
liA legal entity which doesn't submit complete information on the use of the 
performance, or the copy of the performer' s contract to the association of performers 
or to other legal entity specialised for the administration of performers' rights (Article 
117), shaH be punished for the misdemeanor by a fine amounting from 3.000,00 up to 
30.000,00. 
The responsible person in the legal entity shaH be also punished for the 
misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, by a fine amounting from 
3.000,00 up to 30.000,00 kunas. 
If the misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article is committed by a 
naturai person she/he shall be punished by a fine amounting from 1.000,00 up to 
5.000,00 kunas." 
Article 28 
After Article 129, Article 129a and 129b shall be added reading as follows: 
"Article 129a 
liA legai entity which performs the activity of administering copyrights, 
performers' rights or rights of the producers of phonograms without the authorization 
of the Office, or contrary to its authorisation, (Article 90, paragraph 1, and Article 
116, paragraph 1) shaH be puni shed for a misdemeanor by a fine amounting from 
5.000,00 up to 50.000,00 kunas. 
The responsible person in a Iegai entity shaH be aiso punished for the 
misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, by a fine amounting from 
5.000,00 up to 50.000,00 kunas. IP/N/1/HRV/C/l/Add.1 
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If the misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article has been 
committed by a natural person, she/he shaH be punished by a fine amounting from 
1.000,00 up to 5.000,00 kunas. 
Article 129b 
"A legal entity which commits the misdemeanor referred to in Articles 125, 
126, 126a, 126b, 128, 129 and 129a of this Law for the purpose of acquiring financial 
gain, shaH be punished by a fine amounting from 20.000,00 up to 200.000,00 kunas. 
The responsible person in a legal entity shaH be also punished for misdemeanors 
referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, by a fine amounting from 20.000,00 up to 
200.000,00 kunas. 
If the misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article is committed by a 
natural person for the purpose of acquiring financial gain, she/he shall be punished by a 
fine amounting from 5.000,00 up to 20.000,00 kunas.1I 
Article 29 
This Law shaH apply to ail authors' works and to all performers' performances 
in respect of which economic rights have not ceased to exist up to the day of entering 
into force of this Law. 
Article 30 
This Law shaH also apply to the phonograms: and to the performances fixed 
thereon, the first fixation of which took place within fi ft y years prior to the beginning 
of the calendar year in which this Law entered into force. 
Article 31 
Pending procedures instituted under Articles 96, 98, 119, and 120 of this Law 
for the purpose of protecting the rights of authors and the rights of performers shall be 
carried out in compliance with the provisions being in force up to the date of entry into 
force ofthis Law. 
Article 32 
The Regulations referred to in Articles 90, and 116 of this Law will be enacted 
by the Director of the State Intellectual Property Office within the period of six months 
counting from the date of entry into force ofthis Law. Article 33 IPIN/lIHRV/C/IIAdd.1 
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In the text of the Law, in the corresponding grammatical case, the words: 
"organization of authors" shaH be replaced with the words "association of authors", the 
words: Ilother organizations referred to in Article 90, paragraph 1 ofthis Law" with the 
words: "other specialised legal entities referred to in Article 90, paragraph 1 of this 
Law", the words: "or the organization respectively referred to in Article 90 of this 
Law" with the words: "or specialised legal entity respectively, referred to in Article 90 
of this Law", the words "or organizations respectively referred to in Article 90, 
paragraph 1 of this Law" with the words "or association of authors respectively or 
specialised legal entity referred to in Article 90, paragraph 1 of this Law", the words: 
"the organization administering copyright", "the organization for the administration of 
copyright", with the words: "association of authors or other legal entity specialised for 
the administration of copyrights", the words: "organizations of performers" with the. 
words. "association ofperformers", the words: "organization representing a performer" 
with the words: "association ofperformers or other specialised legal entity representing 
a performer", the words "general act" by the word "Regulations". 
Article 34 
This Law shaH enter into force on the eight day following its publication in the 
"Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia". IPINIl/HRV/CIl/Add.1 
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UNOFFICIAL CONSOLIDATED TEXT 
OF THE COPYRIGHT LAW AND 
THE LAW ON THE AMENDMENTS 
OF THE COPYRIGHT LAW OF 1999 COPYRIGHT LAW 
Part One 
RIGHTS OF AUTHORS 
Chapter 1 
INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS 
Article 1 IPIN/I1HRV/C/I1Add.l 
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Authors of literary, scientific and artistic works shall enjoy copyright as provided 
for in this Law in respect of their creations (authors' works). 
Article 2 
The authors' works of nationals of the Republic of Croatia, or of persons who are 
not nationaIs of the Republic of Croatia but have their usuaI residence in the Republic of 
Croatia, published in the Republic of Croatia or abroad, as well as authors' works which 
have not been published, shall enjoy protection pursuant to this Law. 
The unpublished authors' works of foreign nationals and stateless persons first 
published in the Republic of Croatia shaH enjoy, pursuant to this Law, the same protection 
as the authors' works of nationals of the Republic of Croatia. 
The authors' works of foreign nationals not first published in the Republic of Croatia 
shall enjoy, pursuant to this Law, protection within the framework of the obligations which 
the Republic of Croatia has assumed under international treaties or on the basis of the de 
facto reciprocity. 
An author's work shaH be considered to be published if it has been made 
accessible to the public in the manner whatsoever, at will of the author or other entitled 
person. 
The public, within the meaning of the provisions of this Law, shaH mean a large 
number of persons outside the usual narrow circle of persons cIosely connected by family 
or friendly relations. 
Public exploitation of an author's work shaH comprise any exploitation of the 
work accessible to the public or its exploitation in the area accessible to any person. IPIN/l/HRV/C/l/ Add.1 
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Chapter II 
THE AUTHOR'S WORK AND THE AUTHOR 
1. The Author's Work 
Article 3 
Unless otherwise provided in this Law, a creation in the literary, scientific or artistic 
field or in any other field of creation, whatever may be the kind, method or form of 
expression thereof, shall be considered an author's work. 
The following, in particular, shall be considered authors' works: 
-written works of any kind, including computer programs; 
-oral works (lectures, addresses and other works of the same nature); 
-dramatic and dramatico-musical works; 
-choreographic works and entertainments in dumb show the acting form of which is 
fixed in writing or otherwise, as weIl as works derived from folklore; 
-musical works, with or without words; 
-cinematographic works and works created by a process analogous to 
cinematographic creation; 
-works of painting, sculpture, architecture and graphie art, whatever may be the 
material of which they are made, as weIl as other works of fine art; 
-works of aIl branches of applied art and industrial designing; 
-photographie works and works produced by a process analogous to photography; 
-cartographie works (geographical maps, topographical maps, and the like); 
-plans, sketches and three-dimensional works related to geography, topography, 
architecture and any other scientific or artistic field. 
Article 4 
Collections of author's works, data or other material, whether in machine 
readable or other form, which by reason of the selection or arrangement of their 
contents constitute individual intellectual creations shaH as such, enjoy copyright 
protection. 
The protection enjoyed by the collection referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article 
shall not extend to its content and shall be without prejudice to any copyright subsisting 
in the works, data or material itself. 
Article 5 
Translations, adaptations, musical arrangements and other alterations of authors' 
works shall be protected as original works. IPIN/lIHRV/C/lIAdd.1 
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The protection provided for in the first paragraph of this Article shall also be 
granted to translations of official texts of a legislative, administrative or judicial nature, if 
these translations are not made for the purpose of official publication and are not published 
as such. 
The provision of the first paragraph of this Article shall not affect the rights of the 
author of the original work. 
Article 6 
The use of creations of folk literature and art for the purpose of a literary, artistic or 
scientific arrangement shall be free. 
Article 7 
The title of the author's work shall enjoy the same protection pursuant to this Law as 
the work itself. 
It shall be unlawful to give the author's work a title which has already been used for 
the author's work of the same kind, if such title is likely to cause confusion regarding the 
author of the work. 
2. The Author 
Article 8 
The author of a work is the person who created the work. 
The person whose full name or pseudonym appears on the work shall be regarded as 
the author, unless proved to the contrary. 
Article 9 
The author of a collection of authors' works is the person who made the collection. 
The author of a translation, as well as the author of a work which has been adapted, 
musically arranged, or altered in another way, is the person who translated, adapted or 
musically arranged su ch work or who altered it in another way. 
The person who created a literary, artistic or scientific work by using creations of 
folk literature or art is the author of the work so created. 
Article la 
Where an author's work created jointly by two or more persons constitutes an 
indivisible entity, copyright in su ch work shall belong indivisibly to aIl those who 
contributed to its creation. fPIN/I/HRV/C/I/Add.l 
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If the mutual relationships between co-authors are not otherwlse settlec1 by a 
contract, the share of each co-author shall be fixed in proportion to the actual contribution 
of each of them towards the creation of the author's work. 
Where an author's work created jointly by two or more persons do es not constitute 
an indivisible entity, each co-author shall be vested with copyright in his contribution. 
Article Il 
Copyright in anonymous works, as weil as in works published under a pseudonym, 
the author of which is unknown shall be exercised by the publisher. 
Copyright in unpublished works the author of which is unknown shall be exercised 
by the corresponding association of authors. 
The provisions of the first and second paragraphs of this Article shail cease to apply 
as from the time when the identity of the author is established. 
Article 12 
In addition to the author, the owner of copyright may also be the entity to whom any 
or ail legal prerogatives of authors which may be transferred under this Law shail belong, 
by operation of law, will or a contract. 
The prerogatives granted to the author by this Law shaH belong to a copyright owner 
other than the author within such limits as they are vested in him by law, or to the extent 
that they have been transferred to su ch copyright owner by will or a contract. 
The author may not exercise economic rights which he has transferred to another 
person. 
The copyright owner shall be responsible for any prejudice caused to third parties by 
the non-authorized transfer of authors' property-right prerogatives. 
Unless otherwise provided in this Law, the provisions of the Law concerning the 
author shall also apply to other copyright owners. 
3. Special Provisions Concerning the Author's Work and the Author 
The Cinematographic Work 
Article 13 
The author of the scenario, the director and the director of photography, as weIl as 
the principal cartoonist in the case of an animated cartoon film, shall be considered the 
authors of the completed cinematographic work. IP/NI1/HRV/C/l/Add.l 
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remuneration, may request rescission of the contract unless another time limit is agreed 
upon. 
If any of the authors refuses to complete his contribution to the cinematographic 
work or if, by force majeure, he is unable to do so, he may not object to the use, for the 
purpose of completing the cinematographic work, of the contribution he has already made. 
Su ch an author shall have the corresponding copyright in the contribution already made to 
the creation of the cinematographic work. 
The Copyright Work Created in the Course of 
Employment or Pursuant to a Commission 
Article 19 
The relations concerning authors' works created in the course of employment, shall 
be governed by Regulations and collective agreements or employment contracts, in 
accordance with this Law. 
Article 20 
A legal entity, or the employer, shall have the exclusive right to use, within the 
framework of their regular activity and within a period of five years, authors' works created 
by a worker in the fulfillment of his work obligations in that legal entity, or on the premises 
of that employer (work created in the course of employment), without requesting the 
authorization of the worker who is the author of the work in question. 
The worker-author shall have the right, for the use of the author's work created in 
the course of employment within the meaning of the first paragraph of this Article, to a 
separate remuneration in accordance with collective agreements or employment contracts, in 
proportion to the extent to which the use of the work has contributed to the increase in 
revenues or profit, or to the exercise of the activities and the achievement of the tasks of 
that legal entity. 
The worker-author of the work created in the course of employment shall retain aIl 
other copyrights in his work. 
Other copyrights in works created in the course of employment may not be limited 
by collective agreements or employment contracts or by a contract (Article 19). 
Subject to the provisions of this Article, the owner of the author's economic right in 
a computer program created in an enterprise or other legal entity, or on the premises of an 
employer, shall be that legal entity or that employer. 
Article 21 1 PINI ] IHRV/CllIAdd.1 
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If music is the essential element of a cinematographic work, the composer of the 
music for that work shall also be considered the author of such cinematographic work. 
The composer of film music who is not considered the author of the cinematographic 
work within the meaning of the second paragraph of this Article, the designer of the sets, 
the costume designer and the make-up artist shall have copyright in their contributions and 
may transfer them to the maker of the cinematographic work only by a contract. 
Article 14 
The authors of the cinematographic work shall have the exclusive right to film their 
creations and to reproduce, distribute, perform and broadcast, translate and alter them. 
Article 15 
The relationship between the maker of the cinematographic work and the authors 
thereof, as well as the mutual relationships between the authors of the cinematographic 
work, shall be governed by a contract made in writing. 
The contract referred to in the first paragraph of this Article shall, inter aUa, 
determine the rights transferred to the maker and the remuneration due to the authors of the 
cinematographic work. 
The rights not transferred to the maker by a contract shall be reserved to the authors 
of the cinematographic work. 
The maker of the cinematographic work shall, within the meaning of this Law, be 
considered the person who or legal entity or group of citizens which produces a 
cinematographic work, whether on the basis of a contract or on his or its own initiative. 
Article 16 
Unless otherwise agreed, the author of the scenario and the composer may publish 
or separately utilize in another way the contributions they have made to the cinematographic 
work, provided that this is without prejudice to the rights transferred to the makers of the 
cinematographic work. 
Article 17 
The cinematographic work shall be regarded as completed when the first master 
print of the film has been produced in compliance with the agreement between the authors 
and the maker of the cinematographic work. 
Article 18 
If the maker does not complete the cinematographic work within three years of the 
date of the conclusion of the contract pertaining to the making of such work, or if he does 
not distribute the cinematographic work so completed within one year of the date of the 
completion thereof, the authors of the cinematographic work, while reserving their right to IPIN/1/HRV/C/1/Add.l 
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The right of publication of the author's work created in the course of employment 
shaIl include the right to publish a single bibliographie edition, that is, the right to a single 
multiplication. 
When a work created in the course of employment is published, a legal entity, or the 
employer, shall be obliged to indicate the full name of the author or his pseudonym. 
If the legal entity, or the employer, does not publish the work created in the course 
of employment before the expiration of the time limit provided for in the Regulations, in a 
collective agreement or an employment contract, the right to publish the work shall revert 
to the author. 
The legal entity, or the employer, may, even before the expiration of the time limit 
referred to in the third paragraph of this Article, permit the author to publish the work 
created in the course of employment. 
When publishing his complete works the author may, even without the permission of 
the legal entity, or of the employer, publish the work created in the course of employment 
without regard to the fact that the said work has already been published. 
After the expiration of a period of five years from the date of completion of a work 
created in the course of employment, the right to publish the work shall revert to the 
author. 
The right of publication of the work created in the course of employment shaH revert 
to the author even before the expiration of the period provided for in the sixth paragraph of 
this Article if the significance of the work is limited to a shorter period. 
Article 22 
The worker employed within a legal entity, or on the premises of an employer, who, 
in the fulfillment of his work obligations, draws up an account of technical matters, a 
report, an official record or any other similar work shall not acquire any copyright in such 
works. 
Article 23 
Unless otherwise agreed, aU copyrights in works created pursuant to a work-by­
contract agreement shall belong to the author who created the work. 
Subject to the provisions of the first paragraph of this Article, the owner of the 
author's economic right in a computer program created pursuant to a work-by-contract 
agreement shall be the person who ordered it, unless otherwise specified in the said 
agreement. 
Article 24 
Where one or more persons have organized the work on the creation of an author's 
work (hereinafter referred to as "the person commissioning the work") in which several 
contributors not having employment relationships with the person commissioning the work 
have participated, the copyright in the whole work shall, unless otherwise stipulated in the 
contract, belong to the person who commissioned it. IP/N/l/HRV/C/IIAdd.l 
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Each of the persons who have contributed to the creation of the work referred to in 
the first paragraph of this Article shaH retain his copyright in his own contribution. 
The person commissioning the work referred to in this Article shall not republish it 
or use it for any other purpose without the authorization of aIl the contributors. 
Cha pte r III 
CONTENT AND EXPLOITATION OF COPYRIGHT 
Article 25 
Copyright shaIl include property-right prerogatives (hereinafter referred to as 
Il authors , economic rights") and prerogatives of a personal nature (hereinafter referred to as 
"authors' moral rights"). 
Article 26 
The author' s economic rights shaH consist of the rights of the author to the 
exploitation of his work. 
The exploitation of an author's work is effected, in particular, through publication, 
reproduction or multiplication, distribution, presentation, performance, transmission or 
other communication to the public, translation, adaptation and arrangement of the work. 
Unless otherwise provided in this Law, exploitation of an author's work by another 
person may take place only with the authorization of the author. 
Unless otherwise provided in this Law or by a contract, the author shaIl have the 
right to a remuneration for each and every exploitation of his work by another person. 
Article 27 
The author' s moral rights shall consist of the right to be recognized and indicated as 
the author of the work, his right to object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification 
of the work, and his right to object to any use of the work which would be prejudicial to his 
honor or reputation. 
Article 28 
Any person who publishes, alters, arranges, performs, translates or records an 
author's work and any other person who exploits such work in public shall be required to IPlNlI/HRV/C/li Add.l 
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indicate the full name of the author of the work for each and every exploitation, if the 
author do es not want the work to be anonymous or pseudonymous. 
Article 29 
The author may at any time, after having compensated the damages to the owner of 
the copies thereof, withdraw his published author's work from circulation or buy aIl copies 
thereof, as weIl as prohibit the latter from being further exploited in any form whatsoever, 
if the use of the said work might prejudice the scientific or artistic reputation of the author. 
If the author's work referred to in the first paragraph of this Article is put back into 
circulation, the former owner of the copies of the work shall have priority as regards the 
right to use the work, that is, the rights to pre-emption within 30 days from the date on 
which he was informed about it, but not later than one year from the date on which the 
work was put back into circulation. 
The prerogatives provided for in the first paragraph of this Article shaH not belong 
to other copyright owners. 
Article 30 
The author shaH have the exclusive right to authorise the publication, 
reproduction or multiplication of the work, putting into circulation the original or the 
copies of the work, including the importation thereof, the presentation, performance, 
alteration or the exploitation of the work in any other form, unless otherwise provided 
by this Law. 
The exclusive right of putting into circulation referred to in paragraph 1 of this 
Article, shaH be exhausted through the tirst sale of the original or copies of the author's 
work or through any other transfer of property right relating thereto, do ne in the 
Republic of Croatia, with the author's authorisation, concerning such original or such 
copy of the work. 
The provision referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article shaH not prejudice the 
author's right to authorise the importation of the original or the copies of the work into 
a particular State, unless otherwise provided for by the international treaty binding the 
Republic of Croatia. 
Article 30a 
The authors of the computer programs, cinematographic works and works 
analogous to them referred to in Article 3, paragraph 2, subparagraph 6, of this Law, 
and of the works fixed on sound carriers (phonograms) shaH have the exclusive right to 
authorise the rentai of the originals or the copies of those works. 
The provision referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shaH not apply to the 
rentai of computer programs if the program itself is not an essential object of the rentaI. 
The exclusive right of rentaI referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shaH not be 
exhausted with respect to the original or the copies of the work respectively, which have 
been put into circulation with the author's authorisation through sale or in any other 
way. IPlNll IHRV/CllI Add.l 
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Article 31 
Authors of dramatic, dramatico-musical and musical works shaH have the exclusive 
right to authorize: 
1. the public performance of such works; 
2. the communication to the public of the performance of such works by any means. 
The rights referred to in the first paragraph of this Article shaH also be granted to the 
authors of dramatic and dramatico-musical works with respect to translations of such works. 
Article 32 
The author shaH have the exclusive right to authorize: 
l. the broadcasting ofhis work or the communication thereofto the public by any other 
means ofwireless difiùsion of signs, sounds or images; 
2. any communication to the public, whether by wire or not, of the broadcast of his 
work, where such communication is made by an organization other than the one which 
originally broadcast it; 
3. the communication to the public by loudspeaker or any other similar instrument 
transmitting, by signs, sounds or images, the broadcast of his work. 
Article 33 
Authors of literary, scientific and musical works shaH have the exclusive right to 
authorize: 
1. the recording of such works by instruments for mechanical reproduction; 
2. the public performance of such works recorded by instruments for mechanical 
reproduction. 
Article 34 
Authorization granted in respect of public presentation and public performance, public 
transmission of a presentation and performance, broadcasting to the public or any other 
communication to the public shaH not imply permission to record the work by me ans of 
instruments recording sounds or images. 
Unless otherwise agreed, the broadcasting organization may, by means of its own 
facilities and solely for its own needs, record the protected work it has received the 
authorization to broadcast, and may rebroadcast such recordings upon the payment of a 
remuneration and without seeking further authorization from the author. IP/NIlIHRV/CIl/Add.l 
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The recordings referred to in the second paragraph of this Article may be placed in 
Jublic archives as documentation material. 
Article 35 (Deleted) 
Article 36 
The author of a literary work shall have the exclusive right to authorize the public 
recitation and reading of his work. 
Article 37 
The author shall have the exclusive right to authorize adaptations, arrangements or 
other alterations of his work. 
Article 38 
Authors of literary, musical, scientific and artistic works shall have the exclusive 
right to authorize: 
1. the cinematographic adaptation or reproduction of these works and the 
distribution of the works thus adapted or reproduced; 
2. the public performance and presentation of the works thus adapted or reproduced. 
Without prejudice to the rights of the author of the work adapted or reproduced, a 
cinematographic work created by the adaptation or reproduction of literary, musical, 
scientific or artistic works shall be protected as an original work. 
The adaptation, in any artistic form, of cinematograhic works derived from literary, 
musical, scientific or artistic works shall not be effected without the authorization of the 
authors of such works or without the authorization of the authors of the cinematograhic 
works, unless that right has been granted by them to the maker by a contract. 
The provisions of this Article shall also apply to the reproduction or production 
effected by any other pro cess analogous to cinematography. 
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Authors of original works of fine art, with respect to such works, and authors of 
literary, scientific and musical works, with respect to their original manuscripts, are entitled 
to be informed by the owners or users of such works and/or manuscripts of the identity of 
the new owner. 
If the original of a work of fine art or an original manuscript is resold, the seller 
shall enable the author thereof to have the share of five per cent of the selling priee (droit 
du suite). 
The owner of works of fine art and the owner of literary, scientific and musical 
manuscripts referred to in the first paragraph of this Article shaH be required to inform the 
author, at his request, of the identity of the new owner. 
The author may not renounce in advance his droit de suite. 
The droit de suite cannot be transferred by legal acts during the author' s life, but can 
be inherited. After the author's death, it passes on to his heirs, either by operation of law or 
by will. 
The droit de suite cannot be the subject of compulsory execution or any distraint. 
The provisions of this Article shall not apply to architectural works or works of 
applied art. 
Article 40 
Authors of works of fine art, photographie works and similar works may prohibit 
the exhibition of their particular works if they have a moral interest therein. 
The author may not prohibit the exhibition of works belonging to museums, galleries 
and similar organizations. 
Article 41 
The author shaH have the exclusive right to authorize the translation of his work. 
Article 42 (Deleted) 
Article 43 (Deleted) 
Article 44 (Deleted) 
Article 45 (Deleted) Article 46 (Deleted) 
Article 47 IPIN/l/HRV/C/l/Add.l 
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The following shall be permissible in the territory of the Republic of Croatia without 
the authorization of the author: 
1. the publication and reproduction of excerpts from a literary, scientific or artistic 
work for teaching purposes; 
2. the reprinting in periodical publications of articles dealing with current matters of 
general public interest, provided that the reproduction of such articles has not been 
expressly prohibited by the author; 
3. the reproduction in newspapers and periodical publications of single photographs 
of current events, illustrations, technical sketches, and the like, published in other 
newspapers and periodical publications; 
4. the reproduction of artistic works exhibited in streets and squares, unless the 
reproduction of a work of sculpture has been obtained by means of a mould; 
5. the publication, by means of photography, of works of sculpture and painting 
and works of architecture in newspapers and reviews, unless the author has expressly 
prohibited it. 
The provisions of the first paragraph of this Article shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to 
publication and reproduction in the daily and periodical press, in films, in newsreels and by 
means of broadcasting. 
In aU the cases referred to in the first paragraph of this Article, the author' s full 
name, the original work and the origin of the borrowing must be clearly indicated. 
In the cases referred to in the first paragraph of this Article, the author shaH have 
the right to a remuneration and aH other rights vested in him under this Law. 
Article 48 
The following shaIl be permissible in the territory of the Republic of Croatia without 
the authorization of the author and without the payment of a remuneration for use: 
1. the performance of a literary or artistic work for the purposes of teaching or in 
the form thereof, provided that such performance involves no entrance fee or other form of 
payment or is given on the occasion of school celebrations where attendance is free of 
charge; 
2. the publication of reviews of published literary, artlstlc or scientific works, 
wherein the content of su ch works is reproduced in an original and abridged manner; 
3. the public exhibition of works, except those the exhibition of which is prohibited 
by the author, provided that he has not renounced this right by a contract; fPIN/l/HRV/C/1/Add.l 
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4. the reproduction of works already published, effected for purposes of improving 
one 1 s personal knowledge, provided that such reproduction is neither intended for nor 
accessible to the public; 
5. the reproduction of works of painting by means of sculpture and vice versa, as 
wel! as the reproduction of works of architecture by means of painting or sculpture; 
6. the faithful quotation of excerpts from a work that in a lawful way became 
available to the public, under the condition that it is in compliance with customary usage 
and in the measure justified by the purpose to be achieved, and that in the quotation, the 
source and the name of the author, if available in the source, are indicated. 
7. the reproduction or adaptation, by the user, of copies of a computer program with 
a view to use for the purposes for which the program has been acquired, for archiving and 
for replacement of a lost, damaged or worn-out copy. 
In the cases referred to in the first paragraph of this Article, the author shall retain 
al! other rights vested in him by this Law. 
Article 49 
Speeches intended for the public and made in the Parliament of the Republic of 
Croatia and in the bodies of local government and self-government, before courts and other 
State authorities, in scientific, artistic and other organizations, as well as at public meetings 
and official celebrations, may, without the authorization of the author and without the 
payment of remuneration for their use, be made public by the press and radio or television 
for purposes of reporting current events. 
Other lectures, addresses and other works of the same nature may, without the 
authorization of the author and without the payment of remuneration for their use, only be 
reported briefly in the daily and periodical publications and by broadcasting. 
A collection of the works mentioned in the first and second paragraphs of this 
Article may not be compiled without the authorization of the author. 
In the cases provided for in the first and second paragraphs of this Article, the 
author shall retain all other rights vested in him by this Law. 
Article 50 
Remuneration shall be paid for the exploitation of creations of folk literature and art 
by means of a public performance as for a public performance of authors' works. The 
remuneration shall be the revenue of the government budget. 
The exploitation of creations of folk literature and art in any other form shall be 
free. 
Persons who exploit creations of folk literature and art must indicate the origin of 
the work and abstain from any mutilation or any unworthy use thereof. IP/N/lIHRV/C/lIAdd.l 
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The corresponding associations of authors and the Croatian Academy of Arts and 
Sciences shaH be entrusted with the safeguarding of the rights referred to in the third 
paragraph of this Article. 
Cha pte r IV 
TRANSFER OF COPYRIGHT 
1. Scope of the Transfer 
Article 51 
The right of the author to the exploitation of his work may be transferred whoHy or 
in part, with the payment of a remuneration or without it, to individual persons or to legal 
entities for the entire term of copyright or for a specifie period of time. 
The person to whom the right of exploitation of an author's work has been 
transferred may not, unless otherwise agreed, transfer that right to a third party without the 
consent of the owner of the right. 
Article 52 
When using the author's work, the person to whom the right of exploitation of that 
work has been transferred shaH not be authorized to make any modifications thereof, unless 
otherwise agreed or provided in this Law. 
Article 53 
The author has the exclusive right to transfer the right of exploitation of his work to 
another person and to allow the user to modify the work or to alter it in the respects and 
within the limits specified. 
2. Transfer by Authors 1 Contracts 
(1) Common Provisions Conceming Authors' Contracts 
Article 54 
The author may transfer the right of exploitation of his work to another person 
through authors' contracts, such as a publishing contract, a performance contract, a contract 
for a cinematographic work, a contract for radio and television broadcasting, a contract for 
the recording of his work by means of instruments recording sounds and images, a contract 
for the alteration (adaptation) of his work, a contract for the transfer of the right of 
translation of his work, and the like. IPIN11 IHRV ICI11 Add.l 
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Article 55 
Authors' contracts shaIl be concluded in writing. 
An author' s contract not concluded in writing shall have no legal effect, unless 
otherwise provided by the Law. 
Article 56 
An author' s contract shall contain in particular: the names of the contracting parties, 
the title of the author's work which is the subject of the contract, the type of use of the 
author' s work, the amount, terms and time limits for the payment of a remuneration where 
the work is used in consideration of remuneration. 
The remuneration for the use of the author's work shall, in so far as this is possible, 
be fixed by taking into account the quality of the work, the sales possibilities thereof, the 
economic benefits which the other contracting party derive from using the work, as well as 
other conditions permitting an evaluation of the results achieved by the author's work as 
regards meeting social needs. 
Article 57 
If the revenue derived from the use of the author's work is evidently 
disproportionate to the author' s agreed remuneration, the author shaIl be entitled to request 
that a more equitable participation in the revenue so derived be fixed and/or ensured by an 
amendment of the contract for the use of the work. 
Article 58 
The au thor' s contract may also concern a work not yet created. 
Any contract in which the author transfers the right of exploitation in respect of his 
future works shall be null and void. 
Article 59 
The author shaIl be required, during the period of validity of the contract, to abstain 
from acts which might disturb the user in the exercise of the transferred copyright. 
Article 60 
The provisions of the laws governing contractuaI relations shall apply to authors' 
contracts, unless otherwise provided in this Law. 
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By a publishing contract, the author transfers to the publisher the right of publication 
of his author' s work by means of printing or multiplication. 
The publisher shaIl be required to publish the author's work, to indicate the author' s 
full name, if the author do es not want the work to be anonymous or pseudonymous, visibly 
on each copy, to pay a remuneration to the author if the work is used in consideration of 
remuneration, to ensure effective distribution of copies of the work, and to supply the 
author periodically, at his request, with information concerning the distribution of copies of 
the author's work. 
By a publishing contract, the author may also transfer to the publisher the right of 
translation of his work for the purpose of the publication thereof in other languages, both in 
the Republic of Croatia and abroad. 
Article 62 
The author' s agent may conclude a publishing contract only for the works specified 
in his power of attorney. 
The agent of the author with limited business capacity may not conclu de a 
publishing contract without the author' s consent to the publication of the work. 
Article 63 
The publishing contract shall specify in particular the scope and duration of the use 
of the right transferred to the publisher by the author, the time limit within which the 
publisher is required to publish the work and the amount of the remuneration. 
Where the remuneration for the use of the work is fixed as a percentage of the retail 
priee of the selling copies, the publishing contract shall likewise specify the minimum 
amount of the remuneration which is payable by the publisher regardless of the number of 
copies sold, as weIl as the time limit for paying that amount. 
Article 64 
During the period of validity of the publishing contract, the author may not, unless 
otherwise stipulated in the contract, assign to a third party the right of publication or of 
multiplication of the author's work in the same language. 
The fight of publication of newspaper articles may, unless otherwise stipulated in the 
contract, be assigned by the author simultaneously to severa1 users. 
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Unless otherwise stipulated in the publishing contract, it shall be considered that the 
author has transferred to the publisher, by that contract, only the right of publication for a 
single bibliographic edition, that is, the right to a single multiplication. 
Article 66 
The manuscript or any other original of the author' s work which is the subject of the 
publishing contract shall, unless otherwise stipulated in the contract, remain the property of 
the author. 
Article 67 
Unless otherwise stipulated in the publishing contract, the publisher shall be 
required, if new editions of the author's work are printed, to allow the author to include 
improvements or modifications in his work, provided that these do not involve excessive 
expense for the publisher and do not alter the character of the work. 
Article 68 
When a work is destroyed by force majeure after its remittance to the publisher with 
a view to its publication, the author is entitled to the remuneration which would have been 
due to him if the work had been published. 
Wh en a prepared edition is destroyed by force majeure before its distribution, the 
publisher is entitled to prepare a new edition, and the author shaH have the right to the 
remuneration for the destroyed edition but not for the identical new edition. 
In the case of partial destruction of a prepared edition by fbrce majeure before its 
distribution, the publisher is entitled to reproduce, without paying remuneration to the 
author, only as many copies as were destroyed. 
Article 69 
The following shall cause the publishing contract to terminate: the death of the 
author before the completion of the author's work, the fact that aH editions provided for in 
the contract are out of print and the termination of the contract. 
Unless otherwise stipulated in the contract, the author may request the rescission of 
the publishing contract if, after one edition being out of print, the publisher has not, within 
one year from the date on which the author requested him to do so, proceeded with 
publishing a new edition as stipulated in the contract. 
If, within the time limits provided for in the contract, the author has not delivered 
the author's work to the publisher or the publisher has not published the work, the publisher 
or the author, as the case may be, may demand the rescission of the contract and claim 
damages for non-fulfillment of the contract; in addition, the author shaH have the right to 
keep the remuneration received or, as the case may be, to request the payment of the 
remuneration stipulated in the contract. TPIN/lIHRV/C/lIAdd.l 
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If the time limit for publication of the work has not been fixed in the contract, the 
publisher shall be required to publish the work within a reasonable period of time, and at 
the latest within one year from the date of the remittance of the manuscript or other original 
work. 
Article 70 
A contract for the publication of articles, drawings and notes in newspapers, reviews 
and other periodicals need not be concluded in writing. 
Article 71 
If the publisher, during the period of validity of the publishing contract and at the 
latest on expiration of three years from the date of publication of the work unless a longer 
period is stipulated in the contract, intends to sell unsold copies of the work for pulping, he 
is bound to offer them first to the author at the price which he would obtain if he sold them 
for pulping. 
If the author does not purchase the offered copies of the work, or purchases only a 
part thereof, the publisher may sell the remaining copies of the work for pulping. 
(3) Presentation Contract and Performance Contract 
Article 72 
By a performance contract or a presentation contract respectively, the author of the 
work shall transfer the right of public presentation or performance of the author's work to 
the user, and the user shaIl undertake to present or perform, as the case may be, the said 
work within the fixed time limit, and in the manner and under conditions set forth in the 
contract. 
Article 73 
The author may simultaneously transfer the right of presentation or performance 
respectively of a given author's work to a larger number of users, unless he has renounced 
that right by a contract. 
Article 74 
The presentation contract or the performance contract respectively shall specify in 
particular the type of presentation or performance, as the case may be, of the author's work 
and the territory in which the work may be used. 
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If, within the time limits provided for in the contract, the author has not deIivered 
the work (manuscript, score, or the Iike) to the user, or the user has not presented or 
performed the work respectiveIy, the author or the user, as the case may be, may demand 
the rescission of the presentation contract or the performance contract respectiveIy, and 
claim damages for non-fulfillment of the contract. 
Where the rescission of the contract is due to a fault on the part of the user, the 
author shall also have the right to keep the remuneration received or, as the case may be, to 
request payment of the remuneration stipulated in the contract. 
The manuscript, score or other original of the author's work which is the subject of 
the presentation contract or the performance contract respectively, shaIl, unless otherwise 
stipulated in the contract, remain the property of the author. 
Article 76 
The beneficiary of the presentation contract or performance contract respectively 
shaIl be required to allow the author to inspect the presentation or, as the case may be the 
performance of the work, to ensure that the work is presented or performed under technical 
conditions guaranteeing that the moral rights of the author will be respected, as weIl as to 
supply the author or his agent with the program and to inform him periodically of the 
receipts derived from the performance of the work. 
Relationships between the authors and organizations for radio and television in the 
capacity of users of the author's work within the meaning of the first paragraph of this 
Article shaH be governed by a contract. 
(4) Contract for a Cinematographic Work 
Article 77 
Contracts for cinematographic works include both the contracts concluded by the 
authors of the cinematographic work (contracts concerning the scenario, the direction of the 
film and the film music, the contract concluded with the principal cartoonist) and the 
contracts concerning individual contributions to the cinematographic work made by other 
authors. 
The authors of the cinematographic work transfer to the maker, by a contract, the 
right to film, reproduce, distribute and publicly perform the cinematographic work. 
The maker shaH be required to distribute the cinematographic work and to provide 
the authors thereof, at their request, with information concerning the results of su ch 
distribution. 
The remuneration stipulated in the contract for filming the cinematographic work 
shaIl not include the remuneration for reproduction and public performance of the 
cinematographic work. 
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During the period of validity of the contract for the cinematographic work, the 
authors of that work may not, unless otherwise stipulated in the contract, transfer to a third 
party the right of filming, reproduction, distribution or public performance. 
Where the maker to whom the authors have transferred the right to film the work 
do es not do so within a period of three years from the date of conclusion of the contract, 
the authors may demand rescission of the contract and claim damages for non-fulfillment of 
the contract, as weIl as keep the remuneration received or, as the case may be, request the 
payment of the remuneration stipulated in the contract. 
(5) Transfer by Inlzeritance 
Article 79 
The provisions of the laws on inheritance shall apply to the inheritance of copyright, 
unless otherwise provided in this Law. 
(6) Tlze Care for tlze Respect and Protection of Autlzors' 
Moral Riglzts After tlze Autlzor's Deatlz 
Article 80 
After the death of the author, the respect for the authors' moral rights, unless the 
author otherwise determined while his economic rights were still in effect, shall be vested in 
his heirs, in the association of authors the deceased author belonged to or would have 
belonged to according to the type of the author's work, in other specialised legal entities 
referred to in Article 90, paragraph 1 of this Law and in the Croatian Academy of Arts and 
Sciences. 
After the expiration of the author' s economic rights, the author' s moral rights shall 
be safeguarded by the organizations listed in the previous paragraph and the Croatian 
Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
Chapter V 
TERM OF COPYRIGHT PROTECTION 
Article 81 
Authors' economic rights shaH last during the author's life and seventy years 
after his death, and if such rights belong jointly to the collaborators in the creation of 
the author's work, this term shaH be counted from the death of the last deceased 
collaborator. IPINI 1 IHRV/C/I 1 Add.l 
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Author's economic right in an anonymous author's work and in an author's 
work published under a pseudonym shaH last seventy years from the publication of the 
work. If a pseudonym leaves no doubt regarding the identity of the author or if the 
author reveals his identity, the author's economic right shalliast as long as it would have 
lasted if the author's work had been published under the name of the author. 
If the holder of the author' s economic right, within the meaning of Article 24 of 
this Law, is a legal entity, the copyright shall last for seventy years as from the 
publication of the work or seventy years respectively as from the creation a computer 
program. 
The terms referred to in this Article shaH begin with January 1 of the year 
following immediately the year in which the author died, or as the case may be, the year 
in which the work was published or created respectively. 
Article 82 (Deleted) 
Article 83 (Deleted) 
Article 84 (Deleted) 
Article 85 (Deleted) 
Article 86 
Authors' moral rights shaH subsist also after the termination of their economic 
rights. 
Article 87 (Deleted) 
Article 88 
After the termination of authors' economic rights, a special remuneration shall be 
payable for the use of the author's work if so provided by a separate law. 
Cha pte r VI ADMINISTRATION OF COPYRIGHT 
Article 89 IP/N/lIHRV/C/lIAdd.l 
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The author may exercise his author's rights by himself or through an agent. 
Article 90 
The activity of administering copyrights may be, with the authorisation of the 
State Intellectual Property Office (hereinafter: the Office), carried out by associations of 
authors and other copyright holders as weil as by other legal en titi es specialised for the 
administration of copyrights. 
The administration of copyright carried out by the association of authors or other 
specialised legal entity referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall require the power 
of attorney given by the author or other copyright holder. 
Exceptionally, copyrights in public performances of non-scenic musical or Iiterary 
works, including the rights referred to in Article 32 and Article 36 of this Law (petits 
droits), may be administered by the association of authors even without the power of 
attorney of the author or other copyright holder. 
The Office shaH give authorisation referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, if 
the association of authors or, as the case may be, other legal entity, meet the criteria of 
professional knowledge necessary for carrying out activities relating to the 
administration of copyrights prescribed in the Regulations by the Director of the Office. 
If the association of authors or other legal entity specialised for the 
administration of copyrights cease to meet the prescribed criteria for carrying out such 
activity, the given authorisation shaH be put out of effect. 
Article 91 
If there is no copyright contract for a public performance of non-scenic literary and 
musical works or if the contract doesn't stipulate the amount of the remuneration, the 
associations of authors may obtain a remuneration for the authors of these works in the 
arnount that they have determined in their Regulations. 
Article 92 
To act as representative before courts and other bodies, the association of authors or 
the specialised legal entity respectively, referred to in Article 90 of this Law must possess a 
special power of attorney from the author who se copyright is concerned in the litigation. 
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To act as representative before courts and other bodies with a view of enforcing 
copyrights referred to in Article 90 paragraph 3 of this Law, the association of authors or 
the specialised legal entity respectively, referred to in Article 90 of this Law, shall not need 
a special power of attorney from the author. 
The association of authors or the specialised legal entity respectively, referred to in 
Article 90 of this Law may initiate and conduct in its own name the court actions referred to 
in the first paragraph of this Article, but it shall be required to report to the author the 
rights thus enforced. 
Article 94 
The impresarios of cultural and artistic entertainments and other users of authors' 
works shall be required to obtain authorization for the performance of such works in cases 
where such authorization is required under the provisions of this Law, and to supply 
without delay, and at the latest within 15 days from the date of performance, the association 
of authors or the specialised legal entity respectively, referred to in Article 90 of this Law 
with the programs of the works performed and to pay them royalties for the exploitation of 
such works. 
At the request of the author, association of authors or the specialised legal entity 
respectively, referred to in Article 90, paragraph 1 of this Law, as the case may be, the 
competent police administration or police station shall prohibit the entertainment, or the 
second use of the author's work respectively, if the entertainment impresario, or other user 
of the author's work, does not have authorization for the performance from the author, 
association of authors or the specialised legal entity respectively, referred to in Article 90, 
paragraph 1 of this Law. 
The users of authors' works shall provide all the information relevant for the 
administration of a copyright to the association of authors or other legal entity specialised 
for the administration of copyrights and shall make the corresponding documentation 
available for inspection. 
At the request of association of authors or other legal entity specialised for the 
administration of copyrights, the financial police shall provide the necessary assistance in 
the administration of copyrights. 
Cha pte r VII 
COPYRIGHT PROTECTION 
Article 95 
Any person who se authors' rights, whether economic or moral, have been infringed 
may demand the protection of such rights and c1aim damages for the harm suffered by the 
infringement. Article 96 IP/N/l/HRV/C/lIAdd.1 
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At the request of the plaintiff, the court may arder in its decision: 
1. that the defendant be prohibited to continue his infringement of copyright; 
2. that the abjects by means of which the infringement of the copyright was 
committed be destroyed or modified; 
3. that the judgment be published at the expense of the defendant. 
Article 97 
On the proposai of the author, or other copyright holder, or their association, or 
other legal entity specialised for the administration of copyrights, whereby it is made 
likely that the concerned copyright was infringed or that the infringement is imminent, 
the court may order: 
1) the provisional seizure or withdrawal from circulation of articles or means 
respectively, infringing the copyright, or used for the infringement thereof, or which 
resulted from the infringement of the copyright, or which may be used as evidence of the 
infringement thereof; 
2) the prohibition of the continuation of activities already started that would 
infringe copyright or the prohibition of the continuation of activities infringing it. 
If there is a likelihood that the later provision of evidence on infringement of 
copyright could be difficult or impossible, or if there is a likelihood of irreparable 
damage, or if there is a likelihood that the provisional measures laid down in paragraph 
1 of this Article would not be effective, the court shaH order such measures, without the 
prior notification of the other party to that effect. 
The procedure concerning the proposai for ordering provisional measures shaH 
be urgent. 
The corresponding provisions of the Law on Enforcement shaH be applied to any 
matter concerning the ordering of provisional measures, not regulated by this Law. 
Article 98 
Where a person who publicly exploits an author's wark do es not indicate the 
author' s full name in connection with such exploitation, the author may claim appropriate 
compensation for damages from su ch person, the subsequent publication of the author's full 
name in a suitable form, as weIl as an interdiction prohibiting that person from repeating 
such infringements. 
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Copyright cannot be the subject of compulsory execution. 
Compulsory execution may be exercised on the economic benefit derived from the 
author's work. 
Unfinished works and unpublished manuscripts cannot be the subject of compulsory 
execution. 
Part Two 
RIGHTS OF PERFORMERS 
Chapter l 
INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS 
Article 100 
Performers who perform literary or musical works or other artistic works shaH enjoy 
the rights laid down in this Law in respect of their performances. 
The rights of performers shall in no way affect the rights of the authors of the works 
mentioned in the first paragraph of this Article. 
Article 101 
For the purposes of this Law, performers are individuals and groups that in an 
artistic manner present, recite, declaim, sing, play, dance or in any other way perform 
literary or musical and other artistic works. 
Article 102 
The performer who is a national of the Republic of Croatia, or a foreign national 
who has a usual residence in the Republic of Croatia, shaH enjoy the rights provided by this 
Law in respect of his performances given or used in the Republic of Croatia or abroad. 
The performer who is a foreign national or stateless shall enjoy the rights in respect 
of his performances given or used in the Republic of Croatia, pursuant to this Law within 
the framework of the obligations which the Republic of Croatia has assumed under 
international treaties or on the basis of de facto reciprocity. 
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CONTENT OF THE RIGHTS OF PERFORMERS 
Article 103 
The performer shaH enjoy the economic and moral rights provided by this Law. 
The economic rights referred to in the first paragraph of this Article shaH be 
understood to be the rights of the performer in relation to the exploitation of his 
perfo rmance. 
The moral rights referred to in the first paragraph of this Article shaH be understood 
to be the performer' s right to have his name or pseudonym mentioned on any 
communication of his performance to the public, and also on any recording or on the coyer 
of any recording thereof, and his right ta object to any distortion, mutilation or other 
alteration of his performance, to the use and distribution of his recorded performance if the 
recording has technical or other defects, and also ta improper use of recordings that are 
prejudicial to his honor and reputation. 
Article 104 
If not othenvise provided by this Law, the performer has the exclusive right to 
authorise: 
1) radio or television broadcast of his performance; 
2) communication to the public of his performance by means of a loud-speaker or 
other technical devices from the room or place the performance is taking place; 
3) sound or visual, or sound and visual fixation of the performance; 
4) direct or indirect reproduction of his fixed performance in its entirety or in 
parts; 
5) putting into circulation of the original or the copies of his fixed performance 
including the importation and the rentai thereof. 
The provisions of Article 30, paragraphs 2 and 3, and Article 30a, paragraph 3, of 
this Law shaH apply to the performers' rights in the corresponding way. 
In the cases referred ta in the first paragraph of this Article, the performer shaH be 
entitled to remuneration, except where otherwise provided by this Law or by a contract. 
Except where otherwise agreed, aIl performers shall be entitled to remuneration. 
Any member of a group of performers who leaves the group shaH be entitled to a 
share in the remuneration for the performance in which he participated. 
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Article 106 
The foIlowing shaIl be permitted without the authorization of the performer and 
without the payment of remuneration: 
1. use of the performance for the purposes of teaching and scientific research; 
2. use of short fragments of the performance in the reporting of current events; 
3. recording of the performance by the organization for broadcasting, by means of 
its own facilities and for its own broadcasts (ephemeral recordings), provided that the said 
organization has been authorized to broadcast the performance. 
The recordings referred to in the first paragraph of this Article, subparagraph 3, 
may after broadcasting be entrusted to public archives as documentary material or be 
rebroadcast against the payment of a remuneration. 
Article 107 
If the fixed performance which has been put into circulation is used for the radio 
or television broadcasting or for other communication to the public (secondary use), the 
performer shaH be entitled to a remuneration. 
In the absence of the contract for broadcasting or otller communication to the 
public of the performance or in case the contract doesn't fix the amount of the 
remuneration, the association of performers may obtain the remuneration for the 
performer in the amount fixed by that association in its Regulations. 
Article 108 
The rights of the performer who is the employee of an organization shall be 
governed by the Regulations of that organization, in accordance with this Law. 
The moral rights of the performer, as recognized by this Law, may not be limited by 
the Regulations referred to in the first paragraph of this Article. 
The organization of which the performer is the employee may use the said 
employee' s performance without his authorization provided that the performance formed 
part of his work obligations. 
Article 109 
If the performance of the performer who is an empln~ee goes beyond the bounds of 
his work obligations, or if it is transferred to another organization, the performer shaIl be 
entitled to a remuneration. 
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TRANSFER OF THE RIGHTS OF PERFORMERS 
Article 110 
The performer may, during the term of the right of exploitation that is granted to 
him in relation to his performance, transfer that right by contract to another person 
(performer' s contract), either wholly or in part, with or without the remuneration. 
The person to whom the right to exploit a performance has been transferred may 
not, without the consent of the performer, transfer that right to a third party unless 
otherwise provided by the performer's contract. 
Article 111 
The performer' s contract shall be concluded in writing. 
The performer' s contract that is not concluded in writing shall have no legal effect. 
Article 112 
The performer' s contract shall contain the following: the names of the contracting 
parties, the medium and manner in which the performance is to be used, the name of the 
author, the title of the work performed, the amount of remuneration and also the mode of 
payment and time limits therefor. 
In addition to the particulars mentioned in the first paragraph of this Article, the 
performer' s contract relating to the recording of the performance and to the broadcasting of 
the said recording by radio or television shall also state the number of broadcasts and the 
period during which broadcasting may take place, while the performer' s contract relating to 
the reproduction of the recording shall state the number of copies that may be made. 
Cha pte r IV 
TERM OF THE RIGHTS OF PERFORMERS 
Article 113 
The term of the economic rights of performers provided for in this Law shall be 
fifty years, counted, 
1. for recorded performances, from the end of the year in which they were 
recorded; 
2. for unrecorded performances, from the end of the year in which they were given. IPIN/l/HRV/C/l/Add.l 
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Article 114 
The moral rights of the performer shall subsist even after the termination of his 
economic rights. 
Chapter V 
ADMINISTRA TION OF THE RIGHTS OF PERFORMERS 
Article 115 
The performer may exercise his rights directly or through an agent. 
Article 116 
The activity of administering performers' rights shall be, with the authorisation 
of the State Intellectual Pro pert y Office, carried out by the associations of performers 
and other holders of the performers' rights as well as by other legal entities specialised 
for the administration of performers' rights. 
The Office shaH give the authorisation referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, 
if the association of performers or, as the case may be, other legal entity meet the criteria 
of professional knowledge necessary for carrying out activities relating to the 
administration of performers' rights prescribed in the Regulations by the Director of the 
Office. 
For the administration of performers' rights the association of performers or 
other specialised IegaI entity referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, shaH need the 
power of attorney given by the performer, or by other holder of performers' rights." 
If the association of performers or other legal entity specialised for the 
administration of performers' rights cease to meet the prescribed criteria for carrying 
out such activity, the given authorisation shaH be put out of effect. 
Article 117 
Broadcasting organizations and other users shaH be obliged to provide the association 
of performers or other specialised legal entity representing a performer with detailed 
information concerning the use of his performance. 
The users referred to in the first paragraph of this Article shall also be obliged to 
submit to the association of perforrners or other specialised legal entity representing a 
perforrner a copy of the performer' s contract. them. Article 118 IPIN/l/HRV/C/1/Add.l 
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Groups of performers shall exercise their rights through the persons authorized by 
When, in addition to the group of performers, a conductor, soloists and leading 
actors who are not members of the group take part in the performance of a musical work or 
the presentation of any other artistic work, the right of authorization referred to in Article 
104 of this Law shall belong also to those additional performers, in the absence of any 
agreement to the contrary between them and the group. 
Cha pte r VI 
PROTECTION OF TIIE RIGHTS OF PERFORMERS 
Article 119 
A performer whose economic or moral right has been infringed, may demand the 
protection of that right and claim the damage for the harm suffered by the infringement. 
At the request of the defendant whose performers 1 right has been infringed, the 
court may order in its decision: 
1) that the defendant be prohibited to continue his infringement of the right; 
2) that the objects by means of which the infringement of the right was committed 
be destroyed or modified; 
3) that the judgment be published at the expense of the defendant. 
On the proposai of the performer or other holder of the performers' rights, or 
their association, or other legal entity specialised for the administration of performers' 
rights, whereby it is made Iikely that the performer's right has been infringed, or that 
the infringement is imminent, the court may order: 
1) the temporary seizure or withdrawal from circulation of the objects or means 
respectively infringing the performers' rights or the infringement of the performers' 
rights, or resulting from such infringement, or the objects or means respectively which 
may serve as evidence of the committed infringement of the performers' rights; 
2) the prohibition of the continuation of activities already started which might 
infringe the perfonners' rights, or the prohibition of the continuation of activities 
infringing the performers' rights. IPINIl/HRV/C/IIAdd.l 
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If there is a risk that the later provision of evidence concerning the infringement 
of the performers' rights could be difficult or impossible, or if there is a risk of 
irreparable damage, or if there is a risk that the provisional measures laid down in 
paragraph 3 of this Article wouldn't be effective, the court shaH order such measures 
without previously notifying the other party to that effect". 
The procedure concerning the request for ordering provisional measures shaH be 
urgent. 
The corresponding provisions of the Law on Enforcement shall be applied to ail 
other matters concerning the ordering of provisional measures not regulated by this 
Law. 
Article 120 
When the user of a performance, at the time of use, fails to mention the name or 
pseudonym of the performer as provided in Article 103 of this Law, the performer in 
question may require the prohibition of any further infringements of the same kind, the 
subsequent publication, in an appropriate manner, of the said name or pseudonym, and the 
compensation for damages. 
Part Two A 
RIGHTSOFTHEPRODUCERSOFPHONOGRAMS 
Article 120a 
Producer of phonograms shall be considered the person who first fixes the sounds 
of a performance or other sounds. 
If not othenvise provided by this Law, producers of phonograms shaH have the 
exclusive right of giving authorisations for: 
1) the direct or indirect reproduction, in whole or in part, of their phonograms; 
2) putting into circulation of the original or copies of their phonograms, including 
the importation and rentai thereof; 
In cases referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article, producers of phonograms shaH 
have the right to a remuneration, if not otherwise provided by this Law or by a contract. 
Producers of phonograms shaH also have the right to a remuneration in the case 
where the phonogram which is put into circulation is used for the radio or television 
broadcast or for other communication to the public (secondary use). IPIN/IIHRV/C/lIAdd.l 
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The rights of the producers of phonograms shaH last for fi ft y years, counting 
from the end of the year in which the phonogram was published, and if it has not been 
published, from the end of the year in which the fixation took place. 
The provisions referred to in Article 30, paragraphs 2, and 3, Article 30a, 
paragraph 3, and Articles 106, 115, 116, 117, and 119 of this Law shaH apply to the 
rights of the producers of phonograms in a corresponding way. 
The foreign producers of phonograms shall have the rights prescribed by this 
Law within the framework of the obligations assumed by the Republic of Croatia under 
international treaties or on the basis of the de facto reciprocity. 
The rights of the prodllcers of phonograms shaH not, in any way, prejudice the 
rights of allthors or the rights of performers. 
Part Two B 
RIGHTS OF THE BROADCASTING ORGANIZATIONS 
Article 120b 
If not othenvise provided by this Law, a broadcasting organization has the 
exclusive right to authorise: 
1) the re-broadcasting of their broadcasts by wire or wireless means; 
2) the fixation of their broadcasts; 
3) the reproduction of fixations of their broadcasts; 
4) the communication to the public of their television broadcasts, if such 
communication is accessible to the public against the payment of an entrance fee. 
Broadcasting is, within the meaning of this Law, any transmission by wire or 
wireless means or by satellite intended for the public reception of sounds, or of images 
and sounds, or the representation thereof, including the transmission by the encrypted 
satellite signal where the means for decrypting such a signal are provided to the public 
by the broadcasting organization or with its authorisation. 
In cases referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, the broadcasting organization 
shaH have the right to a remuneration, if not otherwise prescribed by this Law or by a 
contract. 
The rights of the broadcasting organizations shaH last for fi ft y years, counting 
from the end of the year in which the broadcasting took place. 
The provisions referred to in Article 106 and 119 of this Law shaH apply, in a 
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The foreign broadcasting organizations shaH have the rights prescribed by this 
Law within the framework of the obligations assumed by the Republic of Croatia under 
international treaties or on the basis of the de facto reciprocity. 
The rights of the broadcasting organizations shaH not, in any way, prejudice the 
rights of authors, the rights of performers or the rights of the producers of phonograms. 
Part Two C 
SUPERVISION AND ADMINISTRATIVE MEASURES 
Article 120c 
Supervision over the work of associations referred to in Articles 90 and 116 of 
this Law shaH be carried out by the Inspection for Copyright and Related Rights in the 
State InteHectual Property Office. 
The supervision referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article may be carried out by 
other government employees authorised by the Director of the Office. 
In the course of the control referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article the 
supervisor shaH be entitIed to inspect any documentation relating to the activity of 
administering copyrights, performers' rights and the rights of the producers of 
phonograms. 
If, in the course of the control, the supervisor finds out that the association 
carries out the activity of administering copyrights, or performers' rights, or the rights 
of the producers of phonograms contraI)' to the issued authorisation, he shaH, III a 
decision, order the remedy of the found deficiencies within the fixed time limit. 
In the case referred to in paragraph 4 of this Article, the supervisor shaH submit 
a request for the institution of the magistrate court proceedings regarding the 
misdemeanor referred to in Article 129a, or 129b of this Law. 
Article 120d 
The supervISIon of an importation or transfer across the border line of the 
original or of the copies of the· author's work, of the fixed performance or of the 
phonogram shaH be carried out by the competent customs authority. 
On the request of the right holders referred to in this Law, the competent 
customs authorities shaH, under conditions and in the manner provided for by the 
customs provisions, suspend the release into free circulation of unauthorised copies of 
the authors works, fixed performances, or phonograms respectively. 
The competent customs authority referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shaH 
bring criminal charges regarding the commitment of a criminal act, or shaH file a 
request for the institution of the proceedings regarding the misdemeanor respectively, to 
the competent State authorities. Part Three 
PENAL PROVISIONS 
Article 121 (Deleted) 
Article 122 (Deleted) 
Article 123 (Deleted) 
Article 124 (Deleted) 
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Whoever without the authorisation of the lawful distributor of the encrypted 
satellite signal, manufactures, assembles, modifies, imports, exports, sells, rents or 
otherwise distributes a tangible or intangible device or system for decoding such a 
signal, knowing or having reason to know that the device or the system serves primarily 
for decoding an encrypted satellite signal, 
shaH be punished for a criminal act by a fine or by imprisonment up to three 
years (Article 120b, paragraph 2). 
If the commitment of a criminal act referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article has 
resulted in a substantial financial gain or has caused a substantial damage, and if the 
perpetrator has acted with the aim of acquiring such financial gain or causing such 
damage, she/he 
shall be punished by imprisonment from 6 months up to five years. 
The objects intended or used for the commitment of a criminal aet or resulting 
from the eommitment of a eriminal act referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article 
shall be seized and destroyed. 
Article 124b 
Whoever receives an encrypted satellite signal that has been decoded without the 
authorisation of its lawful distributor and further distributes such a signal, knowing or 
having reasons to know that such a signal is decoded without authorisation, 
shaH be punished for a eriminal act by a fine (Article 120b, paragraph 2). 
If the eommitment of a eriminal act referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article has 
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perpetrator has acted with the aim of acquiring such financial gain or causing such a 
damage, she/he 
shaH be punished by a fine, or by imprisonment up to three years. 
Article 125 
Any legal entity shaH be punished for a misdemeanor by a fine amounting from 
5.000,00 up to 50.000,00 kunas if it: 
1) without the author's authorisation, and under its own name or under the 
name of another publishes, presents, performs, transmits or otherwise communicates to 
the public somebody else's work or allows it to be done (Article 27); 
2) without the author's authorisation destroys, deforms, distorts or otherwise 
modifies the author's work, without the author's authorisation, or uses it in a manner 
which is offensive to the author's honour or reputation (Article 27); 
3) without indicating the na me or the pseudonym of the author, except where the 
author wants to be anonymous, publishes, presents, performs or otherwise 
communicates to the public his work (Article 28); 
4) without the authorisation of the author or other holder of copyright, the 
association of authors or other legal entity specialised for the administration of 
copyrights referred to in Article 90, paragraph 1 of this Law, where such authorisation 
is required under the provisions of this Law, or, contrary to their prohibition, publishes, 
reproduces or multiplies, imports or distributes the original or the copies of the work, 
presents, performs, fixes on a material surface, broadcasts, communicates through mass 
media, translates, adapts, arranges, or othenvise alters the author's work or uses it in 
any other form (Article 30); 
5) without the authorisation of the author or other holder of copyright, the 
association of authors or other legal entity specialised for the administration of 
copyrights referred to in Article 90, paragraph 1 of this Law, where such authorisation 
is required under the provisions of this Law, or, contrary to their prohibition rents the 
original or the copies of the computer program, the cinematographic and analogous 
work or of the work embodied in the phonogram (Article 30a). 
The responsible person in a legal entity shaH be also punished for the 
misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article by a fine amounting from 
5.000,00 up to 50.000,00 kunas. 
If the misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article has been committed 
by a natural person, she/he shaH be punished by a fine amounting from 1.000,00 up to 
5.000,00 kunas. 
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A legal entity shaH be punished for a misdemeanor by a fine amounting from 
5.000,00 up to 50.000,00 kunas if it: 
1) without the performer's authorisation, and under its name or under the name 
of another, publishes, presents, performs, transmits or othenvise communicates to the 
public somebody else's performance or allows it to be done (Article 103, paragraph 3); 
2) without indicating the name or the pseudonym of the performer, except where 
the performer wants to be anonymous, publishes, presents, transmits or otherwise 
communicates to the public his performance (Article 103, paragraph 3); 
3) without the performer's authorisation, destroys, deforms, distorts, or otherwise 
modifies his fixed performance, or uses it in a manner which is offensive to the 
performer's honour or reputation (Article 103, paragraph 3); 
4) without the authorisation of the performer or other holder of the performer's 
right, the association of performers, or other legal entity specialised for the 
administration of the performers' rights referred to in Article 116, paragraph 1 of this 
Law, where such authorisation is required under the provisions of this Law, or, contrary 
to their prohibition, broadcasts or communicates the performance to the public, fixes the 
performance, reproduces the fixed performance, imports, distributes or rents the 
original or copies of the fixed performance (Article 104); 
The responsible person in a legal entity shaH be also punished for the 
misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article by a fine amounting from 
5.000,00 up to 50.000,00 kunas. 
If the misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article has been committed 
by a natural person, she/he shaH be punished by a fine amounting from 1.000,00 up to 
5.000,00 kunas. 
Article 126a 
A legal entity, which without the authorisation of the producer of a phonogram, 
where such authorisation is required under the provisions of this Law, or, contrary to 
their prohibition, reproduces, imports, distributes or rents the original or the copies of 
the phonogram (Article 120a, paragraph 2), shaH be punished for a misdemeanor by a 
fine amounting from 5.000,00 up to 50.000,00 kunas; 
The responsible person in a legal entity shaH be also punished for the 
misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article by a fine amounting from 
5.000,00 up to 50.000,00 kunas. 
If the misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article has been committed 
by a natural person, she/he shaH be punished by a fine amounting from 1.000,00 up to 
5.000,00 kunas. 
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The legal entity shaH be punished for a misdemeanor by a fine amounting from 
5.000,00 up to 50,000,00 kunas, if it: 
1) without the authorisatioll of the broadcastiug orgallization, where such 
authorisation is required uuder the provisions of this Law, or contrary to its 
prohibition, re-broadcasts or fixes its broadcast, reproduces the fixation of its 
broadcast or cOIIlllluuÎcates to the public its television broadcast (Article 120b, 
paragraph 1); 
2) without the authorisation of the lawful distributor of the encrypted satellite 
signal manufactures or assembles, modifies, imports, exports, seHs, rents or otherwise 
distributes a tangible or intangible device or system for decoding such a signal, if such a 
device or system is primarily used for decoding the encrypted satellite signal (Article 
120b, paragraph 2); 
3) receives an encrypted satellite signal that has been decoded without the 
authorisation of its lawful distributor or further distributes such a signal (Article 120b, 
paragraph 2). 
The responsible person in a legal entity shaH be also punished for the 
misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article by a fine amounting from 
5.000,00 up to 50.000,00 kunas. 
If the misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article is committed by a 
natural person she/he shaH be punished by a fine amounting from 1.000,00 up to 
5.000,00 kunas. 
Article 127 
A precautionary measure shaH be ordered comprising the seizure of the objects 
intended or used for, or resulting from, the commitment of misdemeanors referred to in 
Articles 125, 126, 126a and 126b, of this Law, irrespective of whether they are the 
pro pert y of the perpetrator or not. 
The decision relating to the misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this 
Article shaH order the destruction of the seized objects. 
Article 128 
A legal entity which doesn't submit complete information on the performance or 
on the presentation of the work to the association of performers or to other legal entity 
specialised for the administration of performers' rights (Article 94), shall be punished 
for a misdemeanor by a fine amounting from 3.000,00 up to 30.000,00. 
The responsible person in the legal entity shaH be also punished for the 
misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article by a fine amounting from 
3.000,00 up to 30.000,00 kunas. 
If the misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article is committed by a 
natllral person she/he shaH be pUllished by a fine amollnting from 1.000,00 up to 
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A legal entity which doesn't submit complete information on the use of the 
performance, or the copy of the performer's contract to the association of performers or 
to other legal entity specialised for the administration of performers' rights (Article 117), 
shall be punished for the misdemeanor by a fine amounting from 3.000,00 up to 
30.000,00. 
The responsible person in the legal entity shaH be also punished for the 
misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, by a fine amounting from 
3.000,00 up to 30.000,00 kunas. 
If the misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article is committed by a 
natural person she/he shaH be punished by a fine amounting from 1.000,00 up to 
5.000,00 kunas. 
Article 129a 
A legal entity which perfonns the activity of administering copyrights, 
performers' rights or rights of the producers of phonograms without the authorization 
of the Office, or contraI)' to its authorisation, (Article 90, paragraph 1, and Article 116, 
paragraph 1) shaH be punished for a misdemeanor by a fine amounting from 5.000,00 up 
to 50.000,00 kunas. 
The responsible person in a legal entity shaH be also punished for the 
misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, by a fine amounting from 
5.000,00 up to 50.000,00 kunas. 
If the misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article has been committed 
by a natural person, she/he shaH be punished by a fine amounting from 1.000,00 up to 
5.000,00 kunas. 
Article 129b 
A legal entity which commits the misdemeanor referred to in Articles 125, 126, 
126a, 126b, 128, 129 and 129a of this Law for the purpose of acquiring financial gain, 
shaH be punished by a fine amounting from 20.000,00 up to 200.000,00 kunas. 
The responsible person in a legal entity shaH be also punished for misdemeanors 
referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, by a fine amounting from 20.000,00 up to 
200.000,00 kunas. 
If the misdemeanor referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article is committed by a 
natural person for the purpose of acquiring financial gain, shelhe shaH be punished by a 
fine amounting from 5.000,00 up to 20.000,00 kunas. 
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TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS 
Article 130 
This Law ("Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia", No. 76/99) shaH apply to 
ail authors' worJ{S and to ail performers' performances in respect of which economic 
rights have not ceased to exist up to the day of entering into force of this Law ("Official 
Gazette of the Republic of Croatia", No.76/99). 
Article 131 
This Law ("Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia", No. 76/99) shaH also 
apply to the phonograms and to the performances fixed thereon, the first fixation of 
which took place within fi ft Y years prior to the beginning of the calendar year in which 
this Law ("Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia", No. 76/99) entered into force. 
Article 132 
Pending procedures instituted under Articles 96, 98, 119, and 120 of this Law 
("Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia", No. 9/99) for the purpose of protecting 
the rights of authors and the rights of performers shaH be carried out in compliance with 
the provisions being in force up to the date of entry into force of this Law ("Official 
Gazette of the Republic of Croatia", No. 76/99). 
Article 133 
The Regulations referred to in Articles 90, and 116 of this Law ("Official Gazette 
of the Republic of Croatia", No. 9/99) will be enacted by the Director of the State 
Intellectual Pro pert y Office within the period of six months counting from the date of 
entry into force of this Law ("Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia", No. 76/99). 
Article 134 
This Law ("Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia", No. 76/99) shall enter 
into force on the eight day foHowing its publication in the "Official Gazette of the 
Republic of Croatia". 