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(c) prepare adaptations, arrangements or other transformations of his work;
(d) carry out or authorize the hiring or public loan of the original or copy of his audiovisual
work, his work incorporated in a phonogram, computer program, database or musical work in
graphical form (scores), irrespective of the owner of the original, or of the copy subject to
hiring or public loan;
(e) carry out or authorize the public distribution, by sale, hiring, public loan or any other
transfer of ownership or possession, of the original or copies of his work, distribution of which
has not been authorized by him;
(f) perform his work in public;
(g) import copies of his work;
(h) broadcast his work;
(i) communicate his work to the public by cable or by any other means.
The hiring and loan rights specified in the fourth point of the first paragraph shall not apply to
the hiring of computer programs, in cases where the program itself is not the essential aim of
hiring.
Exercise of Economic Rights by Successors in Title
Article 11
The rights specified in the previous Article shall be exercised by the successors in title of the
author of the work or by any other natural person or legal entity to which these rights have
been accorded.
The Moroccan Copyright Office may exercise the above rights in cases where the persons
cited in the previous paragraph do not exist.
CHAPTER IV
Limitation of Economic Rights
Free Reproduction for Private Purposes
Article 12
Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 10 above, and subject to those in the second
paragraph of this Article, it shall be permitted, without the authorization of the author or
payment of a fee, to reproduce a lawfully published work solely for the private use of the
user.
The provisions of the previous paragraph shall not apply to:
(a) the reproduction of architectural works in the form of buildings or other similar
constructions;
(b) the reprographic reproduction of a whole book or a musical work in graphical form
(scores);
(c) the reproduction of the whole or parts of databases in digital form;
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