IP/N/1/MUS/5  
IP/N/1/MUS/C/3  
 
25 September 2019  
(19-6181)  Page: 1/2 
Council for Trade -Related Aspects of  
Intellectual Property Rights  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS  AND REGULATIONS  
UNDER ARTICLE 63.2 O F THE TRIPS AGREEMENT  
MAURITIUS : THE COPYRIGHT (AMEND MENT) ACT 2017  
Notifying Member  MAURITIUS  
 
Details of the notified legal text  
 
Title THE COPYRIGHT (AMENDMENT) ACT 2017  
Subject matter  Copyright and related rights  
Nature of 
notification  [X] Main dedicated intellectual property law or regulation  
[  ] Other law or regulation  
Link to legal text* https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/IP/MUS/19_5190_00_e.pdf  
Notification status  [  ] First notification  
[X] Amendment or revision to notified legal text 
[  ] Replacement or consolidation of notified legal text(s)  
Previous 
notification(s) 
referred to  IP/N/1/MUS/C/2, IP/N/1/MUS/4  
Brief description of the notified legal text  
 
The Copyright (Amendment) Act 2017 provides for amendments to certain sections of the main Act, 
i.e. the Copyright Act 2014 in order to inter alia : 
 
a) make provisions regarding phonograms in Section 10;  
b) increase the duration of copyright in Section 15;  
c) make better provisions in relation to the payment of equitable remuneration in Section 35;  
d) replace the words "Rights Management Society " by the words "Mauritius Society of Authors " 
 in Section 43; and  
e) repeal and replace Section 48.  
 
Language(s) of 
notified legal text English  
Entry into force  8 March 2018 (except for Section 8)  
Other date   Publication: 23 November 2017  IP/N/1/MUS/5 • IP/N/1/MUS/C/3  
 
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Notification details  
 
Submission date 
of notification  20 September 2019  
Other information  Published in the Government Gazette of Mauritius No. 110 of 
23 November  2017 
Agency or 
authority 
responsible  Contact details of Authority responsible for overseeing the Copyright Act are 
as follows:  
 
• Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Arts and Culture (responsible for 
 policy issues regarding Copyright)  
 
Tel:  +230 212 5848  
 
• Mauritius Society of Authors is responsible, inter alia , to collectively 
 manage rights of author or other owner to authorize:   
 
-  Reproduction of a work;  
-  Translation of a work;   
-  Adaptati on, arrangement or other transformation of a work including 
 cinematographic adaption;   
-  Distribution to the public of the original or a fixed copy of a work;  
-  Public performance of a work;  
-  Broadcasting of a work;   
-  Other forms of communication to public of a work and   
-  Related rights  
 
Tel:  +230 467 2219 / +230 454 7931  
 
• Commissioner of Police  
 
-  Policing of criminal offences regarding breach of Copyright (Anti -Piracy 
 Unit)  
 
Tel:  +230 211 9114  
 
• The respo nsibility of Intellectual property falls under the Industrial 
 Property Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Trade  
 
Tel:  (+230) 2085714, 2085768, 2124431, 2108917   
 
 
* Links are provided to texts of laws and regulations notified under the TRIPS Agreement in the form 
supplied by the Member concerned; the WTO Secretariat does not endorse or revise their content.