14. Original ownership of economic rights

Subject to the provisions of subsections (2), (3), (4) and (5), of this section, the author who created the work shall be the original owner of economic rights.

In respect of a work of joint authorship, the co-authors shall be the original owners of the economic rights.

In respect of a collective work, the physical person or legal entity at the initiative, and under the direction, of whom or which the work has been created shall be the original owner of the economic rights.

In respect of a work created by an author employed by a physical person or legal entity in the course of his employment, the original owner of the economic rights shall, unless provided otherwise by way of a contract, be the employer. If the work is created pursuant to a commission, the original owner of economic rights shall be, unless otherwise provided in a contract, the person who commissioned the work.

In respect of an audiovisual work, the original owner of the economic rights shall be the producer, unless otherwise provided in a contract. The co-authors of the audiovisual work and the authors of the pre-existing works, included in, or adapted for, the making of the audiovisual work shall, however, maintain their economic rights in their contributions or pre-existing works, respectively, to the extent that those contributions or pre existing works can be the subject of acts covered by their economic rights separately from the audiovisual work.