Slovenia has implemented the Temporary acts of reproduction (Art. 5.1 InfoSoc) exception in Article 49a of the Copyright and Related Rights Act. The national exception closely resembles the EU exception.
Implementation summary:
This exception allows for temporary acts of reproduction which are transient or incidental and an integral and essential part of a technological process and whose sole purpose is to enable a transmission in a network between third parties by an intermediary, or a lawful use of a work, and which have no independent economic significance.
Implementation details:
Beneficiaries:
- intermediaries (transmission between third persons in an electronic communication network)
- any user (lawful use)
Purposes:
- transmission in an network between third parties by an intermediary
- lawful use of a work
Usage:
- making of a transient copy
Subject Matter:
- works
- performances
- phonograms
- film fixations
- broadcasts
Compensation:
- no compensation required
Attribution:
- no attribution required
Other Conditions:
- temporary acts of reproduction must be transient or incidental
- temporary acts of reproduction must be an integral and essential part of a technological process
- temporary acts of reproduction must have no independent economic significance
Introduced/last updated: 26 April 2004
Remarks: According to Article 4 of the CRRA, the provisions on 'the substantive restrictions on copyright' apply mutatis mutandis to related rights, unless otherwise provided in Chapter Five of the Act.
