Slovenia has implemented the Private copying (Art. 5.2(b) InfoSoc) exception in Article 50(2)2. of the Copyright and Related Rights Act. The national exception is slightly more restrictive than the EU exception.

Implementation summary:

This exception allows for the reproduction on any medium of an already published work in a maximum of three copies by a natural person, for their private use, if the copies are not handed over or communicated to the public and with no intend of achieving direct or indirect economic benefits. 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:

  • private non-commercial use

Usage:

  • reproduction (on any medium)

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)
  • performances
  • phonograms
  • film fixations
  • broadcasts

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
  • copies must not be handed over or communicated to the public
  • direct or indirect economic benefits must not be intended

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 private copying exception shares a provision with the reprography 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.