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ARTICLE 107 Reports on seizures, infringement seizures and settlements with regard to
copyright and neighboring rights shall be exempt from stamp duty and registration
formalities.
CHAPTER II
PENALTIES
ARTICLE 108 Any publication, reproduction, performance or broadcast for commercial
purposes on the territory of the Republic of Benin of a protected work or performance in
infringement of copyright and neighboring rights shall constitute an offense of
infringement of a work of the mind, as set out in and punished in accordance with the
provisions of the present Law.
ARTICLE 109 The reproduction of literary and artistic works without the prior consent
of the holders of copyright and neighboring rights and of the collective management
organization provided for in Article 12 shall constitute piracy of literary and artistic
works.
Piracy of literary and artistic works shall be an offense. It shall be an infringement
punishable by the provisions of the present Law.
ARTICLE 110 The infringement, on Beninese territory, of works published in the
Republic of Benin or abroad, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term of three
months to two years and/or a fine of five hundred thousand (500,000) to ten million
(10,000,000) francs, without prejudice to the payment of damages to the victims.
The offenses of exporting and importing infringing works shall be punished with the
same penalties.
ARTICLE 111 Any reproduction, performance or broadcast, by any means whatsoever,
of a work of the mind or a creation that is protected by neighboring rights, without the
consent referred to in Article 4.2 of the present Law, shall be punished with the penalties
provided for in Article 110 of the present Law.
ARTICLE 112 Any fixation, reproduction, communication, making available to the
public either against payment or free of charge, or any broadcast of a performance or
program in infringement of the moral and economic rights afforded to authors or
performers shall also be punished with the penalties provided for in Article 110 of the
present Law.
ARTICLE 113 The marketing on the territory of the Republic of Benin of graphic and
three-dimensional works in infringement of the resale royalty right provided for in Article
4.2 of the present Law shall be punished with the penalties provided for in Article 110 of
the present Law.
ARTICLE 114 In the event of a repeat offense, the penalties incurred shall be doubled.