be considered as null and void.
Article 154
The economic rights of the authors may be seized with respect to works
that are published or made available for circulation. Such works may
not be seized if the author dies before their publication, unless it
has been proven that he intended to publish the work before his death.
Article 155
Performers and their universal successors shall enjoy a moral,
perpetual, inalienable and imprescriptible right to the following:
(i) To be identified as the performers of live or recorded performances
as such.
(ii) To prevent any modification, alteration or distortion of their
performance.
The competent ministry shall exercise such moral rights, after
expiration of the term of protection provided for in this Law, where
there is no heir or successor.
Article 156
Performers shall enjoy the following exclusive economic rights:
(i) Communicate their performance to the public, authorize making
available to the public, renting or lending the original fixation or
copies of their performances;
(ii) Prevent any exploitation of their performances in any manner
without their prior written authorization, including in particular
fixation of such live performances on a medium, rental with the purpose
of making direct or indirect commercial profit, or public broadcasting
of such fixations;
(iii) Rent or loan of the original or copies of their performances with
the purpose of making direct or indirect commercial profit, regardless
of the ownership of the original or rented copies;
(iv) Make a fixation of a performance available to the public by
broadcasting, through computers or other means in such a way as to enable
the individual reception at any time or place.
The provision of this Article shall not apply to the fixations of
performances included in audiovisual fixations, unless otherwise
agreed.
Article 157
Producers of sound recordings shall enjoy the following exclusive
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