Chapter III Assignment of Copyright 22. The partial or full assignment of copyright as provided by this Law shall be permitted. 23. Assignment of the right to communicate a work to the public shall not imply the right to reproduce the work on a physical medium such as recording on tape, for example; likewise a work recorded on a physical medium may not be communicated to the public without the authorization of the author. 24. Overall assignment of works not yet created shall be null and void except where assigned to the Tunisian Copyright Protection Agency. Where copyright is assigned to the State, by succession, copyright shall be deemed assigned to the Copyright Protection Agency and the proceeds of sale deriving from such right shall be paid to the welfare fund of that Agency. 25. The authors of manuscripts and of three-dimensional works shall have an inalienable right, despite any assignment of the original work, to participate in the proceeds of any sale of the work made at auctions or through a dealer. After the death of the author, this resale royalty right shall subsist for the remainder of the current Gregorian year and for the following 50 years. Five percent of the proceeds of the sale shall be levied for the benefit of the author or his heirs. 26. Authorization to broadcast a work by radio or television shall cover all broadcasts made by the radio and television establishments operating in Tunisia by their own means and under their own responsibility, except where clearly stipulated to the contrary in a contract concluded between them and the author. Works of advertising exploited by a radio or television establishment shall be the subject of a specific contract setting out the conditions of exploitation and the percentage of royalties due to the authors. Chapter IV Publication of Graphic Works 27. A graphic publication contract is a contract by which the author of a work or his successors in title assign to the publisher, in accordance with the conditions set out, the right to manufacture or have manufactured a specific number of copies of the work, with the obligation for the publisher to undertake publication and distribution. The contract shall be in writing. 28. Unless otherwise provided, the contract shall stipulate remuneration that is proportional to the proceeds of exploitation for the benefit of the author or his successors in title; such remuneration shall be due on signing of the contract. 29. The publisher shall be required to furnish to the author all the documents required to establish the correctness of his accounts. The author may require the publisher to furnish at least once a year a statement comprising: (a) the number of copies manufactured during the current period, stating the date and size of prints. The printing of a number of copies greater than that set out in a contract shall page 6/12