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Volume 95, Number 143
Special Edition, Page 27
Royal Gazette

18 December 2521

publish” means to make a produced work available to the public by means of display, narration, recitation, playing, expression through sound and/or picture, construction, distribution, or any other means.

Section5.The Minister of Education shall be in charge of the execution of this Act.


Section6.The author shall enjoy copyright over the work he has created, subject to the following conditions:

(1)in the event that the work has not yet been published, the author must have been a Thai national or have resided in the Kingdom throughout or for most of the time of creation of such work;

(2)in the event that the work has already been published, the work has been published for the first time in the Kingdom or the author is of the characteristic designated in (1) at the time of the first publication.

In the event that the author is required to be a Thai national, if the author is a juristic person, such juristic person must have been set up in accordance with the law of Thailand.

In paragraph 1(1) and (2), publication means issuing replications of the work for distribution with the consent of the author, irrespective of whatever form or nature they may have, provided that those replications are made available to