Copyright

Copyright conditions

Permissible Free Use

Art. 23. No permission from the author and no compensation shall be due in the case of:

  1. the use of quotations from works by other persons provided that due indication is given of the source and name of the author if it is disclosed. Quotations shall be made in the customary manner and their volume shall be justified by their purpose;
  2. (Amended SG. No. 28/2000) the use of parts of published works or of a moderate number of small works, with the exception of computer programs and data bases, in other works in such a volume as is necessary for the purposes of an analysis, commentary or another kind of scientific research. Such use shall be permissible only for scientific and educational purposes, shall include reference to the source and name of the author, and only when it does not prejudice the normal use of the work and does not result in unjustified damage to the legitimate interests of the authors;
  3. the use as current news in the press and other media of addresses, reports, sermons and others or parts thereof delivered at public gatherings, as well as speeches delivered in the course of legal proceedings.

Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act

(Translation is obtained from: http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs_new/en/bg/bg027en.html)

In conformity with the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act neither the entire corpus nor single corpus samples shall be reproduced and republished. Only the description of the corpus and the tools for search and analysis will be openly available.

The description of the corpus and the corpus processing and search tools are available free of charge for non-commercial research and educational purposes.


Copyright over the structured corpus and its description

Copyright over Collections, Anthologies, Bibliographies and Data Bases (Amended SG. No. 28/2000)

Art. 11. (Amended SG. No. 28/2000)

  1. Copyright over collections, anthologies, bibliographies, data bases and other similar materials shall belong to the person who has collected or arranged the works and/or material contained therein, unless agreed upon otherwise in a contract. Copyright over the individual parts of which such a work may consist and which themselves constitute literary, artistic or scientific works, shall belong to their individual authors.
  2. The permission of the authors shall be required, unless provided otherwise by a law, for the inclusion of works or parts thereof into collections.