Chapter III
Assignment of Copyright
22. The partial or full assignment of copyright as provided by this Law shall be
permitted.
23. Assignment of the right to communicate a work to the public shall not imply the
right to reproduce the work on a physical medium such as recording on tape, for example;
likewise a work recorded on a physical medium may not be communicated to the public
without the authorization of the author.
24. Overall assignment of works not yet created shall be null and void except where
assigned to the Tunisian Copyright Protection Agency.
Where copyright is assigned to the State, by succession, copyright shall be deemed
assigned to the Copyright Protection Agency and the proceeds of sale deriving from such
right shall be paid to the welfare fund of that Agency.
25. The authors of manuscripts and of three-dimensional works shall have an
inalienable right, despite any assignment of the original work, to participate in the proceeds of
any sale of the work made at auctions or through a dealer. After the death of the author, this
resale royalty right shall subsist for the remainder of the current Gregorian year and for the
following 50 years. Five percent of the proceeds of the sale shall be levied for the benefit of
the author or his heirs.
26. Authorization to broadcast a work by radio or television shall cover all broadcasts
made by the radio and television establishments operating in Tunisia by their own means and
under their own responsibility, except where clearly stipulated to the contrary in a contract
concluded between them and the author. Works of advertising exploited by a radio or
television establishment shall be the subject of a specific contract setting out the conditions of
exploitation and the percentage of royalties due to the authors.
Chapter IV
Publication of Graphic Works
27. A graphic publication contract is a contract by which the author of a work or his
successors in title assign to the publisher, in accordance with the conditions set out, the right
to manufacture or have manufactured a specific number of copies of the work, with the
obligation for the publisher to undertake publication and distribution.
The contract shall be in writing.
28. Unless otherwise provided, the contract shall stipulate remuneration that is
proportional to the proceeds of exploitation for the benefit of the author or his successors in
title; such remuneration shall be due on signing of the contract.
29. The publisher shall be required to furnish to the author all the documents required
to establish the correctness of his accounts.
The author may require the publisher to furnish at least once a year a statement
comprising:
(a) the number of copies manufactured during the current period, stating the date and
size of prints. The printing of a number of copies greater than that set out in a contract shall
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