Slovenia has implemented the Photocopying/photo-reproduction (Art. 5.2(a) InfoSoc) exception in Article 50(2)1. of the Copyright and Related Rights Act. The national exception is much more restrictive than the EU exception.

Implementation summary:

This exception allows for the reproduction on paper or similar medium using photocopying or other photographic technique with similar effects, of an already published work in a maximum of three copies by a natural person. Entire books, graphic editions of music works, electronic databases, computer programs and architectural constructions are explicitely excluded from the scope of the exception; except where a written work in the volume of the entire book has been out-of-commerce for at least two years; or graphic editions of a musical works are copied by hand.

Implementation details:

Beneficiaries:

  • natural persons

Purposes:

  • not specified

Usage:

  • reproduction (on paper or similar medium using photocopying or other photographic technique with similar effects)

Subject Matter:

  • works (except entire books, graphic editions of music works, electronic databases, computer programs and architectural constructions, unless books have been out-of-commerce for at least two years; or graphic editions of a musical works are copied by hand)

Compensation:

  • payment of fair remuneration required

Attribution:

  • no attribution required

Other Conditions:

  • works used must be already published
  • reproduction may be performed in a maximum of three copies
  • entire books, graphic editions of music works, electronic databases, computer programs and architectural constructions are explicitely excluded from the scope of the exception; except where a written work in the volume of the entire book has been out-of-commerce for at least two years; or graphic editions of a musical works are copied by hand

Introduced/last updated: 26 April 2004

Remarks: Compensation fees are regulated in a different legislative act - 'Regulation on the amounts of remuneration for private and internal reproduction' of 2006.

The reproduction exception shares a provision with the private copying and the reproduction by libraries ones.

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.