CHAPTER I General Provisions
Article 1
The purpose of this law is, by providing for the rights of author, and the right related thereon with respect to works and the protection of cultural products, performance, phonogram, and the transmission of broadcasting organization in order to secure a just and legitimate exploitation on those cultural products, and thereby contribute to the development of culture.
Article 2
In this law, the principal terms shall have the following meaning: a-“Work” means a product in which thoughts or sentiment are expressed in a creative way, and which falls within the literary, scientific, artistic or musical domain; b-“Author” means a person who created a work; c-“Performance” means the acting on stage namely dancing, musical performance, singing, or delivering in other ways and means of artistic work, tradition, habit, literary, education, or science; d-“Recitation” means the oral expression by means of speaking, reading, and pronouncing of work in rhythm; e-“Performers” mean artists, dancers, musicians, singers or other persons who give a performance; f-“Database” means an aggregate of information, articles, numerical, diagrams which is systematically constructed, so that such information can be searched for with the aid of a computer; g-“Audio visual work” means a work, which consists of a series of inter-linked pictures, in which give an impression of movement, with or without sound, able to be seen, and if accompanied by sound, able to be heard. h-“Broadcast” means the transmission of sound, pictures, documents or other messages through radio, television, cable television or satellite; i-“Communication to the public” is the transmission by wire or without wire of the images or sounds, or both, of a work, a performance, a phonogram or a broadcast in such a way that the images or sounds can be perceived by persons outside the normal circle of a family and its closest social acquaintances at a place or places so distant from the place where the transmission originates that, without the transmission, the images or sounds would not be perceivable and, further, irrespective of whether the persons can receive the images or sounds at the same place and time, or at different places and/or times individually chosen by them; j-“Phonogram” is the fixation of the sounds of a performance or other sounds, or of a representation of sounds, other than in the form of a fixation incorporated in a cinematographic or other audiovisual work; k-“Phonogram Producer” means a person who produces the phonograms as providing in paragraph (j); l-“Computer program” means a sum of instructions expressed in letters, or codes, or illustrations, or in any other possible forms, once incorporated in a computer, which has its aim to accomplish a task or particular result by means of a computer or through an electronic procedure capable of information processing. m-“Reproduction” is the whole or partial making of one or more copies of a work or phonogram in any manner or form, including any permanent or temporary storage of the work or phonogram in electronic form; n-“Broadcasting organization" means radio, television, and cable television station or satellite. o-"Related Right" is the right of performer, phonogram producer, and broadcasting organization.
Article 3
The following works shall be granted protection under this law including works of the authors, works of the performers, phonograms, and broadcasts through the broadcasting organizations.
1). Works of the authors: a-Works of authors who are nationals of, or have their habitual residence in Cambodia, including legal entity established under the law of the Kingdom of Cambodia and having headquarters located in the territory on the Kingdom of Cambodia. b-Works of first publishing in the Kingdom of Cambodia, including works of first publishing abroad, which were brought to publish in the Kingdom of Cambodia within 30 days (thirty days) of the first communication to the public. c-Audiovisual work, the producer of which has his headquarters or habitual residence in the Kingdom of Cambodia. d-Works of architecture erected in the Kingdom of Cambodia and other artistic works incorporated in a building or other structures located in the Kingdom of Cambodia. e-Works for which the Kingdom of Cambodia has obligation to grant protection under international treaties.