3- Collections of official documents such as texts of laws, decrees, regulations,
international agreements, legal judgments and various official documents.
However, the above mentioned collections shall enjoy protection if they are characterized
by innovation, arrangement or any other personal effort worthy of protection.
PART TWO
Copyrights
Chapter One
General Provisions
Article(5)
The author shall have exclusive right to decide publishing his work and determining the
method of publication. He shall also have exclusive right to utilize his work financially in
any legal method of utilization. No person may exercise this right without his prior
written approval or the approval of his successor.
Article(6)
The author's right of utilization shall include the following:
1- To convey a work of art directly to the public in any method and in particular in any of
the following methods: public recital, musical play, dramatic acting, public performance,
radio transmission of words or sound or image, presentation by a projector, cinema, radio
or television transmission through loudspeakers of performances in a public place.
2- To convey a work of art indirectly to the public by making copies thereof which are
accessible to the public through printing, drawing, engraving, photography, pouring into
moulds or through any of the methods of graphic art, sculpture, photographic or
cinematic publication or through other means.
Article(7)
The author shall have exclusive right to make modification or alteration to his work and
to translate it into another language after observing the provisions of the following article.
No other person may exercise any of the above, or exercise any of the matters provided
for in Article (13) except with the author's written approval or the approval of his
successor