Article 141
Protection shall not cover mere ideas, procedures, systems,
operational methods, concepts, principles, discoveries and data, even
when expressed, described, illustrated or included in a work.
In addition, protection shall not cover the following:
(1) Official documents, whatever their source or target language, such
as laws, regulations, resolutions and decisions, international
conventions, court decisions, award of arbitrators and decisions of
administrative committees having judicial competence.
(2) News on current events which are mere press information.
However, collections of the above shall enjoy protection if the
selection of such collection is creative by virtue of its arrangement
or any other personal effort deserving protection.
Article 142
National folklore shall be considered part of the public domain of the
people. The competent ministry shall exercise the author’s economic
and moral rights and shall protect and support such folklore.
Article 143
The author and his universal successor shall enjoy over the work
perpetual imprescriptible and inalienable moral rights. Such rights
shall include the following:
(1) The right to make the work available to the public for the first
time.
(2) The right to claim authorship;
(3) The right to prevent any modification considered by the author as
distortion or mutilation of the work. Modification in the course of
translation shall not be considered as an infringement unless the
translator fails to indicate deletion or changes or if he causes
prejudice to the reputation and status of the author.
Article 144
Where serious reasons arise, the author alone shall have the right to
request the court of first instance to prevent putting the work in
circulation, withdraw the work from circulation or allow making
substantive modification to the work, notwithstanding his disposal of
the economic exploitation rights. In such a case, the author shall,
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