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Copyright protection enjoyed by the authors of the works mentioned in the above
paragraphs shall in no way jeopardize the protection enjoyed by the authors of the original
works.
Article 4: Works excluded from protection:
Protection prescribed by this Law shall not cover the following:
(1)
Laws and Judicial judgments, decisions of administrative bodies, international agreements
and all official documents, as well as the official translations thereof, subject to the
provisions concerning the circulation of these documents.
(2)
What is published in newspapers, magazines and periodicals, or broadcasted in daily news
or news-like events.
(3)
Ideas, procedures, work methods, concepts of mathematical sciences, axioms and abstract
facts.
Chapter Two
Owners of Rights
Article 5: Authors
(1) An author is any person who publishes a work attributed to himself by mentioning his name
on the work or by any other means used to attribute works to their authors, unless there is
evidence to the contrary.
(2) The publisher whose name appears on the work shall be the representative of the author, if
the work is published under a pseudonym or anonymously.
(3) The authors of the audio work and the audio-visual work shall be the persons who
participated in the creation of this work, such as:
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Author of text.
Scenarist.
Dialogue writer.
Director.
Composer.
Article 6: Joint and Collective Works
(1) When two or more persons participate in the authorship of a work in such a way that the
contribution of each in the work cannot be separated, they shall all be considered equal
partners in the ownership of the work, and none of them may independently exercise the
author’s rights prescribed by this Law , unless otherwise agreed in writing. Each of the
participants in the authorship shall have the right to protective and summary procedures
upon infringement on the work and shall have the right to claim for compensation for his
share, against the damage he has incurred as a result of such infringement.
(2) When two or more persons collectively participate in the authorship of a work in such a
manner that their contributions to the collective work can be separated, each party shall have
the right to individually exploit his part, provided that no damage is caused to the
exploitation of the collective work, unless otherwise agreed.