Laws Article 7 The author alone may decide the publication of his/ her work and to specify the method for this publication, and he/ she may benefit from his/ her work in any legitimate way he/ she chooses, and it is not permissible for anyone else to exercise this right without prior permission from him/ her or to whom this right devolves. Article 8 The author alone shall have the usufruct of his/ her work, and the others may not, without the written permission of the author or his/ her successors, perform the following actions: 1. Reproducing the work in any medium or form, whether temporarily or permanently, whether on a photographic film, including cinematic one, or storing it in a digital or electronic surrounding. 2. Translating the work, adapting it, make the musical arrangement for it or make any modifications to it. 3. Licensing the commercial leasing of the original work and reproducing it to the public. 4. Distributing the original work or its copies through sale or any or any act of transfers the ownership. 5. Importing any copies of the work, including copies prepared with the permission of the copyright holder. 6. Conveying or communicating the work to the public by means of recitation, speech, diction, presentation, acting performance, radio or television and cinematic publicizing or any other wire or wireless means, including making the work available to the public that enables members of the public in a way that they can individually access it in any way, time or place. Article 9: Suspended. Official Gazette of Iraqi Issue No. (1957) 4 Date: 21/01/1971