dated 18.01.2012 No. 546-IV (shall be enforced upon expiry of thirty calendar days after its first official publication). Chapter 4. Relations of mass media with citizens and organizations Article 17.Copyright work and letters 1. Editorial board, possessor of the web-site shall be obliged to comply with the rights to used objects of the intellectual property rights including copyright, allied and other rights to intellectual property. 2. Upon publication of reader letters, the abbreviation and editing of their text not distorting the sense of its content shall be allowed. 3. No one shall have the right to obligate the editorial board of mass media to release material, deviated by it to public, unless otherwise provided by the Law. Footnote. Article 17 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 12.01.2012 No. 537-IV (shall be enforced upon expiry of ten calendar days after its first official publication). Article 18. Official communications 1. Official communications of the state bodies shall be set in mass media in accordance with the legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 2. State bodies shall be obliged to provide information to the representatives of mass media on equal conditions in case of applying, independently from their forms of ownership and accessory, with the exception of one that is the state secret of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 2-1. State bodies and other organizations shall be obliged to provide required information not later than three days from the date of receipt of application or to give a response specifying the term of provision or motive of refusal. Response for application, requiring additional observation and verification shall be given in term, not later than one month from the date of its receipt. In case of receipt of application from mass media in state bodies or other organization, the competence of which doesn’t include permit of raised questions, this application shall be directed to the relevant bodies informing the mass media about this in term, not later than five days. 3. Refusal in provision of requested details may be appealed by the representative of mass media to superior body or civil servant, or in court in the manner, provided by the Law for appeal of illegal actions of the bodies of state administration and officials, infringing the rights of citizens. Footnote. Article 18 as amended by the Laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 03.05.2001 No. 181; dated 06.02.2009 No. 123-IV (the order of enforcement see Article 2). Article 19. Right of refutation 1. A citizen or a legal entity shall have the right to require refutation of details, discrediting his (her) honor, dignity and business reputation in a judicial proceeding. 2. If the details, discrediting honor, dignity and business reputation of a citizen or a legal entity are distributed in mass media, they shall be refuted gratuitously in the same mass media. In case, if mentioned details are contained in the document, outgoing from organization, such document shall be subject to substitution or revocation with compulsory notifying of addressees on discrepancy with the reality of details, contained in this document. Procedure for refutation in other cases shall be established by the court. 3. Requirement of a citizen or a legal entity on publication of refutation or response in mass media shall be considered by court in the case, if a mass media agency