THE DEVELOPMENT OF RIGHTS OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF COPYRIGHT LAWS IN SERBIA
THE DEVELOPMENT OF RIGHTS OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF COPYRIGHT LAWS IN SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to present the development of national legislative acts on copyright and related rights in the field of broadcasting, by focusing on the copyright norms directly related to electronic media. The goal will be achieved by providing a chronological overview and normative analysis of all legislative act son copyright and related rights adopted thus far, starting from the 1929 Copyright Act of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia to the current Act on Copyright and Related Rights of the Republic of Serbia. After presenting the initial premises, the author analyzes the norms related to electronic media (radio and television), covering the period from the adoption of the 1929 Copyright Act of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia to the 2004 Act on Copyright and Related Rights of the Republic of Serbia. Then, the article provides an overview of the copyright norms related to electronic media in the positive law by analyzing the 2009 Act on Copyright and Related Rights and its subsequent amendments. The results of this analysis should indicate the significant impact of electronic media in the process of regulating copyright issues throughout the history of national copyright law as well as in the positive copyright law.

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