the laws and regulations relating to the property of authors, is a and every infringement is a crime. The infringement on the Comorian territory, of public works in the Comoros or abroad, is punished with a fine of 30,000 to 300,000 francs. Will be punishable by the same penalties of offense to import or export of infringing works. 83 ART.397.- is also an offense of counterfeiting, any reproduction, representation or dissemination by a few ways that this may be, of a work of the spirit in violation of the rights of the author, such that they are defined and regulated by law. ART.398.- The punishment will be from two months to two years of imprisonment and of 50 000 to 500 000 francs fine, if it is established that the guilty is usually ships to the acts referred to in the two preceding articles, in case of recidivism, after conviction pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the temporary or permanent closure of establishments operated by the infringer of habit and his accomplices will be pronounced. When this measure of closure has been pronounced, the staff will receive an allowance equal to his salary, plus all the benefits in kind, for the duration of the closure and the more for six months. If the collective agreements or provide for special, after dismissal compensation on top, it will be due. Any breach of the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs shall be punishable with imprisonment of one to six months and a fine of 20,000 to 100,000 francs. In the event of recidivism, the penalties shall be doubled. ART-399.- In all cases provided for in articles 396, 397 and 398, the guilty will be, in addition, sentenced to the confiscation of sums equal to the amount of the shares of the revenues produced by the reproduction, representation or the illicit spread as well as to the confiscation of any equipment specifically installed in view of the illegal reproduction of all the copies, or infringing objects The tribunal may order, at the request of the civil party, the publication of the judgments of conviction, in full or by extracts, in the newspapers that he will appoint and the display of so-called judgments in the places that he will indicate, inter alia to

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