Protection of Musical Works as a Copyright : Kosovo Case

The copyrights, can be considered at the same time an old but also a new field in Kosovo, taking into consideration the developments before and after the War of 1999. Since that time, this field had a rapid development in Kosovo, although it stopped for a while but started successfully afterwards! Saying stopped taking into account the time of the former Yugoslavia, part of which was Kosovo as well, and at that time the copyrights were governed by SOKOJ - the Serbian Organization of Music Authors. After the war, the field of copyright in the country re-borned with adoption of the Copyrights Law, being followed with its amendments, adoption of other laws of the same field, adoption of the Criminal Code, adoption of Government Strategies, launching of various national and international projects, and many other initiatives. The protection of musical works was also included in these developments! Naturally, such an extensive history of copyrights provides for researchers and scholars a great deal of scientific textbooks, legal infrastructure, researches, scientific papers and different articles to base and expand the knowledge