Article 978. Property rights of the author of the Civil Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan

     1. The author owns the exclusive rights to use the work in any form and in any way.

     2. The exclusive rights of the author to use the work mean the right to carry out, allow or prohibit the following actions:

     1) reproduce the work (the right to reproduce);

     2) distribute the original or copies of the work in any way: sell, change, rent, perform other operations, including in an open information and communication network (the right to distribute);

     3) to publicly display the work (the right to public display);

     4) to publicly perform the work (the right to public performance);

     5) to publicly communicate the work to the public, including broadcasting or cable communication (right to public communication);

     6) to broadcast the work (broadcast on radio and television), including transmission by cable or satellite (the right to broadcast);

     7) translate the work (the right to translate);

     8) to alter, arrange or otherwise recycle the work (the right to recycle);

     9) practically implement an urban planning, architectural, and design project;

     10) to carry out other actions that do not contradict legislative acts.

     3. Excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 04/07/2015 No. 300-V (effective ten calendar days after the date of its first official publication).

     4. If copies of a lawfully published work are put into civil circulation through their sale, their further distribution is allowed without the author's consent and without payment of royalties, except in cases provided for by legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

     5. A work is considered used, regardless of whether it was sold for the purpose of generating income or its sale was not aimed at this.

     6. The practical application of the provisions that make up the content of the work (inventions, other technical, economic, organizational, etc. solutions) does not constitute the use of the work in the sense of copyright.

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