within a delay fixed by the court, pay in advance a fair compensation
to the person authorized to exercise the economic rights of exploitation,
failing which the court decision shall have no effect.
Article 145
Any disposal of any moral rights stipulated in Articles 143 and 144
shall be considered null and void.
Article 146
In the absence of any heir or successor, the competent ministry shall
exercise the moral rights provided for in Articles 143 and 144, after
the expiration of the term of protection of the economic rights
prescribed in this Law.
Article 147
The author and his universal successor shall have the exclusive right
to authorize or prevent any form of exploitation of his work,
particularly through reproduction, broadcasting, re-broadcasting,
public performance, public communication, translation, adaptation,
rental, lending or making the work available to the public in any manner,
including through computers, internet, information networks,
communication networks and other means.
The exclusive right for computer program rentals shall only apply to
the main rental enterprise; it shall not apply to renting audiovisual
works inasmuch as the circulation of such copies does not cause material
prejudice to the owner of the exclusive right in question.
The author and his successor shall also have the right to control any
disposal of the original copy of the work, and shall consequently be
entitled to a certain percentage of not more than 10% of the proceedings
resulting from every disposal of that copy.
The right to prevent third parties from importing, using, selling or
distributing his protected work, shall lapse where the copyright owner
undertakes to exploit or market his work in any state or authorize a
third party to do so.
Article 148
The protection of an author’s copyright and the translation rights of
his work into another language shall lapse with regards to the
translation of that work into the Arabic language, unless the author
or the translator himself exercises this right directly or through a
third party within three years of the date of first publication of the

58

Select target paragraph3