Article 31. Transfer of property rights. Copyright Agreement of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights
1. The author's property rights specified in Article 16 of this Law may be assigned in whole or in part, and may also be transferred for use under an author's agreement on the transfer of exclusive rights or under an author's agreement on the transfer of non-exclusive rights.
Any assignment of property rights must be formalized by a written agreement signed by the author and the person to whom the property rights have been assigned.
2. The copyright agreement on the transfer of exclusive rights authorizes the use of the work in a certain way and within the limits established by the agreement only to the person to whom these rights are transferred, and gives such person the right to prohibit such use of the work to other persons. The right to prohibit the use of a work by other persons may be exercised by the author of the work if the person to whom the exclusive rights have been transferred does not protect this right.
3. The copyright agreement on the transfer of non-exclusive rights authorizes the user to use the work on an equal basis with the owner of the exclusive rights who transferred such rights and (or) other persons who have received permission to use this work in the same way.
4. The rights transferred under the copyright agreement are considered non-exclusive, unless the agreement explicitly provides otherwise.
The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated June 10, 1996 No. 6-I.
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