LAW OF TURKMENISTAN

of November 8, 2014 No. 141-V

About publishing

This Law establishes the legal basis of regulation of the relations between publishers, manufacturers, distributors and consumers of printed materials.

Chapter I. General provisions

Article 1. The basic concepts applied in this Law

For the purposes of this Law the following basic concepts are applied:

1) publishing – the economy industry covering organizational and creative and production economic activity of the legal entities and physical persons which are engaged in preparation, production, release and distribution of printed materials;

2) printed materials – the editions intended for consumers irrespective of circulation and method of their production, except for periodic printing editions, which legal regulation осуществляется­ according to the legislation of Turkmenistan on mass media;

3) the edition – set of copies of the same product of printing production (books, brochures, albums, posters, booklets, cards and other products) which had publishing training and contains information intended for distribution, printed from the same typographical set and made by printing, stamping or in a different way according to state standards and other regulatory legal acts of Turkmenistan of rather publishing registration, printing and technical accomplishment;

4) the publisher – the physical or legal (publishing house) person performing publishing activities.

Person for whom the publishing activities are not the main or is not the main source of the income can be equated to the publisher physical or legal (the publishing organization);

5) publishing house – specialized enterprise which core activity are the publishing activities;

6) the publishing organization – the company, organization or the organization which charters along with other types of activity provide publishing activities;

7) publishing activities – activities for publishing preparation and appearance of printed materials;

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