CHAPTER II: COPYRIGHT VALIDITY
Article 26
(1) The copyright on:
a. books, computer program, pamphlets, typographical arrangement of published works, and all other written works;
b. sermons, lecturers, addresses and other works of utterance;
c. visual aids for educational and scientific purposes;
d. songs or music with or without lyrics, including arts of karawitan and phonograms;
e. dramatic works, dances (choreographic works), puppet shows, pantomimes;
f. all forms of arts, such as paintings, drawings, engravings, calligraphy, carving, sculptures, collages, applied arts in the form of handy crafting;
g. architecture;
h. maps;
i. batik art;
j. translations, interpretations, adaptations, anthologies, and other works as a result of changing of form or mode
shall be protected for the life of the author and 50 (fifty) years after his death.
(2) When a work referred to in paragraph (1) is jointly owned by 2 (two) persons or more, the term of protection on such work shall be for the life of the longest surviving author and shall continue until 50 (fifty) years after the death of the said longest surviving author.
Article 27
(1) The copyright on:
a. computer programs;
b. cinematographic works;
c. phonograms;
d. performances;
e. broadcasting works;
shall be for 50 (fifty) years as from the first publication.
(2) The copyright on a photographic work shall be for 25 (twenty five) years as from the first publication of the work.
(2a) The copyright on typographical arrangement of a published work shall be for 25 (twenty five) years as from the first publication of the work.
(3) The copyright on works referred to in paragraph (1) and Article 26 paragraph (1) which are owned or held by a legal body, shall be for 50 (fifty) years as from the first publication, whereas copyright referred to in paragraphs (2) and (3) shall be for 25 (twenty five) years.
Article 27A
(1) The copyright on works which are held or exercised by the State pursuant to:
a. provisions of Article 10 paragraph (2) letter b, shall be without any time limit;
b. provisions of Article 10A paragraph (1) shall be for 50 (fifty) years as from the first time the work is known to the public.
(2) The copyright on works which are exercised by publishers pursuant to provisions of Article 10A paragraph (2) shall be for 50 (fifty) years as from its first publication.
Article 28
(1) The period of validity of a copyright to a work that is published part by part shall be computed from the date of publication of the final part.
(2) In determining the period of validity of a copyright to a work consisting of 2 (two) or more volumes, likewise summaries and news published by printing and not at the same time, each such volume or summary and news shall be respectively deemed to be a separate work.
Article 28A
The term of protection for the right of an author referred to in:
a. Article 24 paragraph (1) shall be without any time limit;
b. Article 24 paragraphs (2) and (3) shall be for the period of copyright on the work concerned, except for the mentioning and changing of name or pseudonym of the author.
Article 28B
Without prejudice to the right of an author over a term of copyright protection which is computed from the date of a work comes into existence, the computation of the term of protection on a work which enjoys a protection shall be for:
a. 25 (twenty) five years;
b. 50 (fifty) years;
c. the life time of an author and 50 (fifty) years after his death
computed from 1 January of the following year after the work concerned has been published, or the work has become known by the public, or after the author died.