OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF THE TOGOLESE REPUBLIC
August 2, 1991
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Art. 16 – The name of the author shall be indicated to the extent and in the manner that are
required by proper usage on any copy reproducing the work and whenever the work is made
available to the public.
No one shall subject the work to any alteration without the written consent of the author. No one
shall make it accessible in a manner or under circumstances that would harm the author’s honor
or reputation.
Art. 17 – The rights recognized for the author under Articles 15 and 16 shall be inalienable and
imprescriptible.
II – ECONOMIC RIGHTS
Art. 18 – The author shall enjoy the exclusive right to exploit his work in any form and to gain
financial profit from it. In particular, the author shall have the exclusive right to carry out or
authorize another person to carry out any of the following acts:
1 – reproducing the work in any format, including in the form of cinema films and sound
recordings, using any procedures that enable the work to be communicated to the public;
2 –performing or reciting the work in public by any means or procedure, including sound or
visual broadcast;
3 – communicating the work to the public by cable, loudspeaker or any other procedure or means
of transmitting sounds or images;
4 – producing a translation, adaptation, arrangement or any other transformation of the work.
Under the terms of this Article, the work shall include the work in its original form, as well as in
a form derived from the original.