LEBANON
Law on the Protection of Literary and Artistic Property*
(No. 75 of April 3, 1999)
TABLE OF CONTENTS**
Chapter I: Definitions
Chapter II: Protected Works
Chapter III: Copyright Holder and Terms of Protection
Chapter IV: Criteria of Eligibility for Protection
Chapter V: Rights Enjoyed by Copyright Holders
Chapter VI: Exceptions
Chapter VII: Related Rights
Chapter VIII: Terms of Protection
Chapter IX: Collective Management Associations and Companies
Chapter X: Deposit
Chapter XI: Provisional Measures, Damages and Sanctions
Chapter XII: Transitional and Temporary Provisions
Articles
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2-4
5 - 11
12 - 13
14 - 22
23 - 34
35 - 48
49 - 57
58 - 75
76 - 80
81 - 97
98 - 101
Chapter I
Definitions
1. For the purpose of applying the provisions of this Law, the meaning of the terms and expressions
hereinafter shall be as follows, unless otherwise indicated in the context. These definitions apply also to
related rights.
"Performance of work" means the execution of a work through exhibition, playing music, reciting, narrating,
acting, dancing or any other means whether directly or through any means or device.
"Public performance" means a performance which is given in a place or places where the number of
persons present exceeds the members of one family and their direct acquaintances.
"Broadcasting" means the transmission of the work for public reception by wireless means including
transmission by satellite.
"Computer program" means a set of orders expressed in words or symbols or in any other form which when
entered into a matter readable by a computer shall enable the computer to perform or execute a certain task
or give a certain result.
"Phonogram/sound recording" means every fixation by any physical means of the sounds of a performance
or of other sounds, whether resulting from the performance of a work or not, other than a fixation
incorporated in an audiovisual work.
"Reprographic reproduction" means making copies from the original of a work by means other than printing,
such as photocopying, and includes enlarged or reduced copies of the work.
"Related rights" means the rights that performers, producers of phonograms, television and radio
broadcasting organizations and publishing houses enjoy.