(c) a right to assume a pseudonym: an author shall enjoy the right to assume a
pseudonym in place of his own name;
(d) a right to oppose any modification or distortion or mutilation of his work;
(e) a right of disclosure: by virtue of this right the author alone shall be entitled to
present his work to the public by any means or process;
(f) a right to reconsider: an author shall enjoy the right to withdraw his work from
circulation or to seize it.
10. The author of a work that is lawfully made available to the public may not prevent:
(a) the making available to the public of the work if done for private purposes and free
of charge or if done for educational, teaching or cultural purposes;
(b) reproductions, translations and adaptations intended for strictly personal and private
use. However, the organizers of theatrical performances, whether free of charge or against
payment, shall be required to inform beforehand either the author, his successors in title or the
Copyright Protection Agency.
11. Quotations and borrowings from a work already lawfully made available to the
public shall be authorized on condition that they are compatible with fair practice and are
justified by a scientific, educational or informational purpose, including quotations and
borrowings from articles in the form of press summaries.
Such quotations and borrowings may be used in their original version or in translation
and shall be accompanied by identification of the source and of the name of the author if his
name is given in the source.
12. Sound or audiovisual recordings and reproductions of broadcast literary, scientific
or artistic works shall be lawful if such recordings or reproductions are made for educational
or cultural purposes.
13. The Ministry responsible for culture may authorize as required the public libraries,
the non-commercial documentation centers, the scientific institutes and teaching
establishments, the youth centers and culture centers, to reproduce literary, scientific or
artistic works in the necessary quantity and limited to the needs of their activities in return for
remuneration to be laid down, failing amicable agreement between the parties, by the
Tunisian Copyright Protection Agency.
14. If it is not expressly stated in the source that the right of reproduction is reserved,
articles concerning political, social or economic current events may be reproduced in the press
or be broadcast.
However, the source must in all cases be identified.
15. The recording, reproduction and broadcasting of literary, scientific or artistic works
referred to as part of information relating to current events shall be lawful whatever the means
used, within the limits justified by the intended purpose of the information.
16. Works of figurative or architectural art permanently shown in a public place may be
reproduced for the purposes of cinematography or of television on condition that their
insertion in a cinematographic film or television broadcast is of an incidental or secondary
nature in relation to the main subject of the film or broadcast.
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