(b) to claim authorship of his work and attribution of his name each time the work is
used;
(c) to publish or otherwise make available his work to the public under his true name,
pseudonym or anonymously;
(d) to object to any distortion or mutilation of his work or its derivative;
(e) to withdraw the work from circulation if it does not anymore reflect or correspond
to his intellectual concepts, provided that he indemnifies the parties concerned for any
damage caused by this act.
(2) The economic rights or the rights to authorize:
(a) publication and reproduction of his work by any means, known or to be developed,
and its distribution to the public by sale, lease or lending on a commercial basis;
(b) public performance of the work;
(c) broadcasting of the work, including through the communication and direct
broadcasting satellites;
(d) communication of the work to the public by wire including cable, optical fiber and
other material carriers;
(e) translation of the work into other languages;
(f) adaptation, arrangement or transformation of the work;
(g) exhibition or display of the work in public, and authorizing any other acts of
commercial exploitation of the work by existing means to be developed.
Part III
Ownership of Copyright
9. The rights prescribed in section 8 of this Act shall be vested, in the first instance, in
the physical person or persons who created the work.
Author’s Name
10. Where a work does not carry the name of an author or carries an unknown
pseudonym or is published anonymously, the publisher shall be deemed the owner of
economic rights of the author for the purposes of exercising these rights until the author
reveals his identity.
Joint Works
11.—(1) Where several persons participate in the creation of a work and it is
impossible to distinguish the contribution of anyone of them, all such persons shall be