Laws Article 29 In the event of co-authoring lyrical musical works, the author of the musical part alone shall have the right to license, publish, or make copies thereof, provided that there is no prejudice to the right of the author of the literary part. This author shall have the right to publish the literary part alone, provided that he/ she does not dispose of it as the basis for another musical work, unless agreed otherwise. Article 30 In the event of co-authoring works that are performed with movements accompanied by music, shows accompanied by music and in all similar works, the author of the non-musical part shall have the right to authorize the public performance of the whole the work he/ she coauthored in fulfilling it or making copies of it, and the author of the musical part has the right to dispose of the musical part alone, provided that he/ she does not use a work similar to this joint work, unless agreed otherwise. Article 31 The following shall be considered a co-author of the film or work intended for radio or television: 1. The author of the script or the author of the idea written for the program. 2. Whoever alters the existing literary work in a way that makes it appropriate. 3. Author of the dialogue. 4. The composer of the music if he/ she places it specifically for this purpose. 5. The director, if he/ she extends actual control and performs positive act from the intellectual point of view to edit the work, and if the cinematic work or the work prepared for radio or television is simplified or extracted from another previous work, then the author of this previous work shall be considered a co-author of to the new work. Official Gazette of Iraqi Issue No. (1957) 11 Date: 21/01/1971