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2. the confiscation of any assets with which the link with the unlawful activity may be
established and, except in exceptional circumstances, all the copies made in
infringement of the provisions of this Law and their packaging, materials and
equipment used to manufacture them, without any compensation of any kind for the
defendant;
3. the destruction, except in exceptional circumstances, of these copies and their
packaging, materials and equipment used to manufacture them or, in exceptional
cases, their disposal in another reasonable way, outside commercial circuits so as
to reduce to a minimum the risks of further infringements, and all of the above
without any compensation of any kind for the defendant;
4. the permanent or temporary closure of the establishment used by the perpetrator of
the infringement or his accomplices;
5. the publication of the condemnatory sentence in one or more newspapers
designated by the competent court, at the expense of the person convicted,
although the costs of this publication must not exceed the maximum of the
applicable fine.
Measures, Reparations and Penalties in Cases of Violation
of Technical Means and Distortion of Information
on the Rights Regime
Article 65
Without prejudice to the provisions of Law No. 77-03 on audiovisual communication, the
following acts shall be considered unlawful and, for the purposes of Articles 61 to 64 of this
Law, shall be assimilated to infringements of the rights of authors, performers and
phonogram producers:
(a) the manufacture, import, export, assembly, modification, sale or hiring of a device, system
or means specially designed or adapted to render inoperable any device, system or means
used to prevent or restrict the reproduction of a work, or in order to diminish the quality of the
copies produced;
(b) the manufacture, import, export, assembly, modification, sale or hiring of a device, system
or means designed or adapted in the knowledge or having good reason to believe that such
a device, system or means would allow or facilitate the decoding of coded program-carrying
signals without the authorization of the legitimate distributor;
(c) the reception and redistribution of program-carrying signals that were originally coded, in
the knowledge that they have been decoded without the authorization of the legitimate
distributor;
(d) the circumvention, suppression or restriction of any effective technological measure;
(e) the manufacture, import, sale, making available to the public or distribution of any device,
unit, service or means used, advertised or promoted as, or essentially designed or produced
with the aim of, allowing or assisting in the circumvention or disabling or limiting of any
effective technological measure;
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