Pictorial matter is classified as written matter even when there
is no accompanying text.
Art. 6. Printed matter shall not be deemed to be such unless it
is published. Printed matter is deemed to have been published
when it has been delivered for sale or dissemination by other
means within the Realm. This does not however apply to
printed documents of a public authority to which there is no
public access.
Art. 7. Periodical is understood to mean any newspaper,
magazine or other such printed matter, which, according to its
publishing schedule, is intended for publication in at least four
issues or instalments a year, appearing at different times under
a particular title, and posters and supplements pertaining
thereto. Once a certificate of no legal impediment to
publication has been issued, a publication shall be deemed to be
a periodical until such time as the certificate is rescinded or is
declared to have lapsed.
If the owner of a periodical disseminates or causes to be
disseminated the contents of the periodical, or parts thereof, in
the form of a radio programme or technical recording under the
Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression, the programme
or technical recording shall be equated, in respect to the
application of Chapters 1 to 14, with a supplement to the
periodical, insofar as the version disseminated in such form
reproduces the contents of the periodical in unaltered form and
indicates how the contents have been disposed. A special
obligation to record such programmes, and retain technical
recordings and keep them available, may be laid down in law.
Rules concerning the right to broadcast are contained in
Chapter 3 of the Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression.
Art. 8. Provisions laid down in law apply in respect of the
rights of the originator of a work of literature or art or a
photographic image, in respect of rights related to such
copyright, and in respect of the ban on reproducing works of
literature or art in such a way as to violate cultural values.
Art. 9. The provisions of this Act notwithstanding, rules laid
down in law shall govern:
1. bans on commercial advertising insofar as the
advertisement is employed in the marketing of
alcoholic beverages or tobacco products;
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