Article 3. Basic concepts

The following basic concepts shall be applied in the present Law:

Copy of a work — a copy of a work made in any material form;

Public display of a work — demonstration of an original or a copy of a work either directly or on a screen by means of film, slide, television frame, or any other technical means, as well as demonstration of individual frames of an audiovisual work without observing their sequence in a place open to the public or in a place where a wide range of persons who are not members of the same family are present;

Making a work public — an action, performed with the consent of the author, which for the first time makes the work available to the public through its publication, public display, public performance, broadcasting or in any other manner;

Audiovisual work — a work consisting of a recorded series of interconnected images (either accompanied or not accompanied by sound), intended for visual and aural (if accompanied by sound) perception through appropriate technical means, including cinematographic works and all works expressed by means similar to cinematographic (TV and video films, filmstrips, slide films and other works), regardless of the method of their initial or subsequent capturing;

Producer of an audiovisual work — a legal or natural person who has taken the initiative and is responsible for the production of such a work;

Dissemination to the general public — communication of works or objects of related rights to the public by wire or wireless means in such a way that users of telecommunications systems may access them from any place and at any time at their own choice;

Communication to the general public — transmission of works or objects of related rights to the air, communication by cable, as well as their delivery by any other means (except for distribution of copies) to the aural and/or visual perception by the audience, whose representatives are not at the place of communication, regardless of whether the works or objects of related rights made available in this way are actually perceived;

Recording — capturing sounds and/or images by technical means in a material form that allows their repeated perception, reproduction or communication;

Performance — a presentation of a work (including a work of folk art), phonogram, performance, production by playing, recitation, singing, dancing in live performance or through technical means;