LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

of April 20, 2000 No. 939-XIV

About publishing

The parliament adopts this ordinary law.

Chapter I General provisions

Article 1. Basic concepts

the author (coauthor) - physical person (group of physical persons), which creative activity (which) the work in the field of literature, arts and sciences is created;

the customer of publishing products - legal entity or physical person which according to the current legislation orders publishing products, undertaking the corresponding financial expenses;

the national bibliography - the bibliography in which according to international standards the documents published in one country are registered and catalogued, prepared by the national bibliographic center which is regularly constituting the national bibliography of Moldova;

the book - the printing edition consisting from the bound or filed pages in cover;

the audiobook - the electronic publication which is representing record of the text read by voice (with background music and sound effects or without them), having own bibliographic identifiers (the name, the author, year of the edition, ISBN) in the form of the electronic file for transfer and listening by means of electronic means;

the e-book - the electronic publication licensed or not licensed in which to the main components the text is and which can be considered to the equivalent printing book;

output data - data set, characterizing the published work and intended for informing the consumer, use for the purpose of bibliographic processing and the statistical recording of editions;

CIP (cataloguing before publication) - the standardized bibliographic description of the publication preparing for release printed, as a rule, on the back of the title page including identification these books: author, title, publisher, place and year of the edition, ISBN number, ISMN, UDC classification index;

national bibliographic control - the standardized bibliographic description of the publication executed once in the country of its origin and available to use in any library of the world;

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