Article 19. Property rights of the author

The author shall own the exclusive rights to use a work in any form and by any means.

Legal and natural persons, except in the cases stipulated in this Law, shall be entitled to use the work only under a contract with the rightholder or any other authorized person, including under a contract with organizations managing property rights on a collective basis or — in their absence — under a contract with an organization performing the functions and duties of these organizations.

The author's exclusive rights to use a work shall mean the right to perform or authorize the following actions:

reproduction of the work (right of reproduction);

distribution of the original or copies of the work by sale or other transfer of ownership (right of distribution);

communication of the work to the general public (right of communication to the general public);

renting out the original or copies of the work (right to rent out);

importing copies of the work for the purpose of distribution, including the copies produced with the permission of the exclusive rights owner (right of import);

communication of the work to the general public by broadcasting via wire (cable) or other similar means (right of communication via cable);

redoing, arrangement or other revision of the work (right of revision);

public demonstration of the work (right of public demonstration);

public performance of the work (right of public performance);

communication of the work to the general public by broadcasting via wireless transmission (right of broadcasting);

translation of the work (right of translation);

repeated communication of the work to the general public, if such communication is made by another organization and not by the organization that originally made the communication (right of repeated communication to the general public).

The author shall have the right to receive remuneration for each type of use of own work (right to remuneration).

If copies of the published work have been legitimately introduced in the civil circulation by means of their sale or other transfer of the right of ownership, their further distribution shall be permitted without an authorʼs consent and without payment of remuneration to him/her, except in the case provided for in part three of Article 23 of this Law.