Collection of Laws for Electronic Access YH CAMEROON (3) The legal bankruptcy or liquidation of the property shall justify the automatic withdrawal of the work by the author. (4) Moral implications shall be linked to the person of the author. They shall be perpetual, inalienable and imprescriptible. 15.—(1) The patrimonial implications of copyright shall comprise the exclusive right of the author to use or authorize the use of his work in any form whatsoever and to reap the financial benefit therefrom. (2) The exploitation right shall comprise representation right, reproduction right, transformation right, distribution right and indefeasible mortgagee right. (3) The debts attached to the patrimonial implications of copyright shall be subject to the same regulations as wage debts. 16.—(1) “Representation” shall mean the communication of a literary or artistic work to the public, including its publication in such a way that everyone can have individual access to it where and when he so chooses. Representation shall comprise notably: (a) public recitation, drama performance and rendering of the work through any means or procedure; (b) public exhibition of the original or copies of a work of art; and (c) telecasting, that is to say, either wireless broadcast, such as radio or television broadcast, by wire or any other similar technical device, of sounds, images, texts or messages of the same nature. (2) The satellite broadcast of a work shall be considered as a representation, even if such broadcast takes place out of the national territory, where it is done at the request, on behalf or under the supervision of a communication firm having its main establishment in the national territory. 17.—(1) Reproduction shall mean the material fixation of all or part of a literary or artistic work through any means that will enable its indirect communication, including permanent or temporary electronic storage. It shall be done through photography, printing, drawing, engraving, casting, and audiovisual, tape or mechanical recording. (2) For works of architecture, the repeated execution of a plan or blueprint shall be considered as reproduction. 18. Transformation shall mean the adaptation, translation, arrangement or any other alteration of a literary or artistic work. 19. Distribution shall mean the offer to sell or lease, the sale, rental or any other act of marketing the original or copies of a literary or artistic work. 20.—(1) The right of pursuit shall confer on the author of graphic or plastic works or of manuscripts, notwithstanding any transfer of the original of the work or manuscript, an CM001EN Copyright, Law, 19/12/2000, No. 2000/011 page 7/25

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