INDONESIAN COPYRIGHT LAW NO. 19 OF 2002
CHAPTER I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1
1. Copyright shall mean an exclusive right for an Author or the recipient of the right to publish or reproduce his Work or to grant permission for said purposes, without decreasing the limits according to the prevailing laws and regulations.
2. Author shall mean a person or several persons jointly upon whose inspiration a Work is produced, based on the intellectual ability, imagination, dexterity, skill or expertise manifested in a distinctive form and is of a personal nature.
3. Work shall mean any result of works of an Author, which shows originality in the field of science, arts and literature.
4. Copyright Holder shall mean the Author as the Owner of the Copyright, or any person who receives the right from the Author, or any other person who subsequently receives the right from the aforesaid person.
5. Publication shall mean the reading, broadcasting, exhibition, sale, distribution or dissemination of a Work, by utilising whatever means including the Internet, or by any manner so that such Work is capable of being read, heard or seen by any other person.
6. Reproduction means to increase the number of a Work, either as a whole or its substantial parts using either the same or different material, including the changing of the form or mode of a work permanently or temporarily.
7. Portrait shall mean any picture taken by whatever means and with whatsoever equipment portraying the face of a person together with or without other parts of the body.
8. Computer program shall mean a collection of instructions manifested in the form of a language, codes, diagrams, or any other forms, which when combined with media that can be read by computers will be able to make computers work to execute certain functions or to obtain specific results, including the preparation in designing the instructions.
9. Related Rights shall mean the rights which are related to Copyright, that is, the exclusive right for a Performer to reproduce or to broadcast his/her performances; for a Producer of Phonograms to reproduce or to rent phonographic works; and for a Broadcasting Organization to produce, reproduce, or to broadcast its broadcasting works.
10. Performer shall mean an actor/actress, singer, musician, dancer or a person who performs, acts, shows, sings, communicates, recites, or plays a music composition, drama, dance, literary work, folklore or other kinds of artistic works.
11. Producer of Phonogram shall mean a person or legal corporate body that first records and has the responsibility to conduct the recording of sounds orvoices, both the recording from a performance and from other recording of sounds or voices.
12. Broadcasting Organisation shall mean an organization, which runs broadcasting in the form of a legal body that broadcasts a broadcasting work through wire or wireless transmissions or other electromagnetic systems.
13. Application shall mean an Application for registration of Copyright filed by an applicant at the Directorate General.
14. License shall mean a permission granted by the Copyright Holder or the Holder of Related Right to another party to announce and/or to reproduce his/her works or products of his/her Related Rights under certain requirements.
15. Proxy shall mean a consultant of intellectual property rights as provided for in this Law.
16. Minister shall mean the minister, whose scope of duties and responsibilities includes the guidance in the field of intellectual property rights, including Copyright.
17. Directorate General shall mean the Directorate General of Intellectual Property Rights under a department presided over by the Minister.