diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4879d555b6..8ce645bbd3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+2008-04-09  Tim-Philipp Müller  <tim at centricular dot net>
+
+	Patch by:  José Alburquerque <jaalburqu at svn dot gnome dot org>
+
+	* docs/gst/gstreamer-sections.txt:
+	* gst/gstsegment.c:
+	* gst/gstsegment.h:
+	* win32/common/libgstreamer.def:
+	  Expose gst_segment_copy() to make things easier for the c++ bindings.
+	  Fixes #518932.
+	  API: gst_segment_copy()
+
 2008-04-09  Tim-Philipp Müller  <tim at centricular dot net>
 
 	* gst/gst.c: (gst_init_get_option_group), (init_post):
diff --git a/docs/gst/gstreamer-sections.txt b/docs/gst/gstreamer-sections.txt
index 2c96bad5f9..e29d214de5 100644
--- a/docs/gst/gstreamer-sections.txt
+++ b/docs/gst/gstreamer-sections.txt
@@ -1780,6 +1780,7 @@ GstSegment
 gst_segment_clip
 gst_segment_init
 gst_segment_new
+gst_segment_copy
 gst_segment_free
 gst_segment_set_duration
 gst_segment_set_last_stop
diff --git a/gst/gstsegment.c b/gst/gstsegment.c
index dd589a47ec..1ed471799a 100644
--- a/gst/gstsegment.c
+++ b/gst/gstsegment.c
@@ -83,7 +83,15 @@
  * Last reviewed on 2007-05-17 (0.10.13)
  */
 
-static GstSegment *
+/**
+ * gst_segment_copy:
+ * @segment: a #GstSegment
+ *
+ * Returns: a copy of @segment, free with gst_segment_free().
+ *
+ * Since: 0.10.20
+ */
+GstSegment *
 gst_segment_copy (GstSegment * segment)
 {
   GstSegment *result = NULL;
diff --git a/gst/gstsegment.h b/gst/gstsegment.h
index ce5e4706e5..18c728b12b 100644
--- a/gst/gstsegment.h
+++ b/gst/gstsegment.h
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ struct _GstSegment {
 GType        gst_segment_get_type            (void);
 
 GstSegment * gst_segment_new                 (void);
+GstSegment * gst_segment_copy                (GstSegment *segment);
 void         gst_segment_free                (GstSegment *segment);
 
 void         gst_segment_init                (GstSegment *segment, GstFormat format);
diff --git a/win32/common/libgstreamer.def b/win32/common/libgstreamer.def
index df61e45ccb..b3bc93f054 100644
--- a/win32/common/libgstreamer.def
+++ b/win32/common/libgstreamer.def
@@ -739,6 +739,7 @@ EXPORTS
 	gst_seek_flags_get_type
 	gst_seek_type_get_type
 	gst_segment_clip
+	gst_segment_copy
 	gst_segment_free
 	gst_segment_get_type
 	gst_segment_init