Armenia adjusts legislation of copyright to EU directives and CU regulations

YEREVAN, APRIL 10, ARMENPRESS. Armenia adjusts the copyright legislation both to EU directives and Customs Union regulations. The new bill “On Copyright” by the Armenian Agency of Intellectual Property gives the answers to a number of questions lacking in the acting law. The new law includes the suggestions of the Union of Enterprises of Information Technologies, the lawyer of the organization Arkadi Sahakyan informed Armenpress, that if the work has two authors, after the death of one of them, the heirs may be bestowed the authors’ rights for 70 years incessantly, while according to the current law after the co-author’s death, the rights were transmitted only to the second co-author. This is one of the amendments in the new bill. “As far as this field changes very quickly, there was a need to regulate a number of provisions. It was decided to prepare a completely new bill, instead of changing the current one… Now the law is more systematized and technically adjusted,” said Sahakyan.