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public in a form or under circumstances that would be detrimental to his honor or
reputation.
((4) Where manifest abuse by the copyright owner prevents the exercise of the right
of disclosure, the Minister responsible for culture may apply to the civil court so that
the court may order any appropriate measure.
((5) The rights afforded to the author by the previous paragraphs shall be perpetual,
inalienable and imprescriptible. They may be transferred to the author’s heirs upon
his death.
Art.10. Economic rights
I. The author shall enjoy the exclusive right to use his work in any way whatsoever
and to make a financial profit from it. In particular, he shall have the exclusive right to
perform or authorize the performance of any of the following acts:
(1) reproducing the work in any format whatsoever, including in the form of
cinematographic
films and sound recordings by any processes that enable it to
be indirectly communicated to
the public;
(2) representing, performing or reciting the work in public, directly or by any
means or process whatsoever, including sound or visual broadcast;
(3) communicating the work to the public by any means or process of
telecommunication, of sounds, data, images or messages of any kind;
(4) producing a translation, adaptation, arrangement or any transformation of
the work;
(5) commercially renting a computer program, except where the program is
itself the main rental object.
II. Under the terms of this Article, the work shall mean a work in its original form and
in any form derived from the original.
III. Third parties may only carry out one of the acts listed in the above paragraphs
with the formal and written consent of the author. Any partial or complete
performance of one these acts without the consent of the author or his successors in
interest or title shall be unlawful.
Art.11. Droit de suite
(1) Authors of graphic and threedimensional works shall, notwithstanding any
transfer of the original work, have an inalienable right to share in the proceeds from
any sale of the work by public auction or through a dealer.
(2) The right shall be constituted by a levy, in favor of the author or his heirs, of five
percent of the proceeds from the sale.
(3) The protection provided for in the preceding paragraphs shall only apply to
authors who are not nationals of the Republic of Djibouti to the extent that their
country of origin offers protection to Djiboutian authors.
Chapter 3 – Term of protection
Art.12 The rights mentioned in Articles 10 and 11 shall be protected during the life of
the author and for 50 years following his death.
Art.13. For a work of joint authorship, the rights shall be protected for the lifetime of
the last
surviving coauthor and for 50 years after his death.