Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Oman

This page provides an overview of copyright rules of Oman relevant to uploading works into Wikimedia Commons. Note that any work originating in Oman must be in the public domain, or available under a free license, in both Oman and the United States before it can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. If there is any doubt about the copyright status of a work from Oman, refer to the relevant laws for clarification.

Oman has been an independent state for centuries.

Oman has been a member of the Berne Convention since 14 July 1999, the World Trade Organization since 9 November 2000 and the WIPO Copyright Treaty since 20 September 2005.^[1]

As of 2018 the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), an agency of the United Nations, listed Royal Decree No. 65/2008 promulgating the Law on Copyright and Related Rights as the main copyright law issued by the Executive of Oman.^[1] WIPO holds the text of this law in their WIPO Lex database.^[2]

Under Royal Decree No. 65/2008,

• Economic rights are protected for the author's life plus 70 years starting from the beginning of the Gregorian calendar year following the year of his death.^{[2008 Article 26]}
• Economic rights of authors of joint works are protected for their life plus 70 years starting from the beginning of the Gregorian calendar year following the year of the death of the last surviving author.^{[2008 Article 26]}
• A collective work is any work created by a group of authors under the supervision of a natural or legal person who undertakes to publish under his own liability and supervision.^{[2008 Article 1.6]} The economic rights of audio-visual works and collective works are protected for 95 years starting from the first day of the Gregorian calendar year following the year during which these works were legally published the first time. If such works were not published during 25 years starting from the date they were completed, the economic rights of these works shall be protected for 120 years starting from the first day of the Gregorian calendar year following their creation.^{[2008 Article 28]}
• The economic rights of works published anonymously or under a pseudonym are protected for 95 years starting from the first day of the Gregorian calendar year following the year during which these works were legally published for the first time. If such works were not published during 25 years starting from the date of completion, the economic rights of these works are protected for one hundred twenty years starting from the first day of the Gregorian calendar year following their creation.^{[2008 Article 29]}
• The economic rights of works of applied arts are protected for 95 years starting from the first day of the Gregorian calendar year following the year during which these works were legally published for the first time. If such works were not published during twenty-five years starting from the date of completion, the economic rights of these works shall be protected for one hundred twenty years starting from the first day of the Gregorian calendar year following their creation.^{[2008 Article 29]}

See also: Commons:Currency

 Not OK

See also: Commons:Freedom of panorama

 Not OK Under Royal Decree No. 65/2008, protected works include "Works of drawing, painting, architecture, sculpture, lithography, printing on fabric, wood or metals, and any similar works in fine arts.^{[2008 Article 2(g)]} Article 20, which covers Free Uses of Works, makes no exemption for freedom of panorama.^{[2008 Article 20]}

Only relevant free uses with respect to buildings and public art:

1. Usage within family circle. (Art.20(2))
2. Usage in educational institutions, in "face-to-face" manner and for non-profit, clarificatory purpose. (Art.20(2))
3. One-time or irregular reproduction/s of "short works" by GLAMs, only for the studying or research needs of natural persons. (Art.20(3)(a))
4. Usage by broadcasters, in the form of a temporary recording, provided that broadcasters "must" destroy existing copies of it within 6 months from execution of the said recording, except a single copy for archival purpose. (Art.20(7))

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