the copies made or comprises, along with other
elements,, a payment of this nature, it shall be
compulsory to indicate the minimum sale price
of the copies in the text of the contract.
1. Copyright for serial romances, novels and
other literary, artistic or scientific works,
whatever their subject matter or the purposes
for which they are published, even where they
are not signed, appearing in newspapers or
periodic collections shall belong to the
respective authors, and only they or third
parties with their consent may reproduce those
works separately, unless there is written
agreement to the contrary.
2. The owners or publishers of the periodicals or
compilations referred to in this article may,
however, reproduce the copies of the
collective work or work of joint authorship in
which the contributions referred to above were
published.
3. The works covered in Paragraph 1 may not be
reproduced in any similar publication.
However, news articles discussing economic,
political or religious topics may be reproduced
by the press where the right to make
reproductions is not expressly reserved.
However, the source must always be clearly
indicated, with reference being made to the
author’s name if the article was signed.
4. Those who infringe the provisions contained in
the preceding paragraphs shall expose
themselves to the penalties imposed by this
law, without prejudice to compensation
regarding the damages they may have caused.
Article 173
At the request of the author, each reproduction of the
work shall display his name, pseudonym, or any other
identifying sign.
Article 174
Contracts must always contain in the text, or as an
integral part, indications allowing the work to be
identified, as well as a brief description of the work, a
sketch, drawing or photograph, together with the date
and the author’s signature. Reproductions may not be
put on sale without the author’s approval of a sample
submitted to him for examination.
Article 175
The provisions of Article 90 shall apply to contracts
governed by this section. However, such contracts
shall set the number of copies to be sold annually.
Should this number not be reached, the entity
exploiting the reproduction may exercise the rights
recognized in that Article.
Article 176
At the end of the contract, the models and any other
elements used by the person who made the copies must
be returned to the author. Instruments specially
created for the reproduction of the work must, unless
otherwise agreed, be destroyed or rendered unusable
should the author of the work reproduced choose not to
acquire them.
SECTION III
Protection of Works of Applied Arts
Article 177
Protection of works executed principally for an
industrial purpose shall not extend to the industrial use
of scientific theories.
TITLE III
Special Regimes
Newspapers and Periodicals
Article 178
Article 179
1. Copyright in works produced in fulfillment of
an employment contract which are signed shall
belong to the authors. However, unless
authorized by the company owning the
newspaper or similar publication, authors may
not publish the works referred to in the
preceding paragraph separately until three
months after the date of circulation of the
publication in which they appeared. In the case
of works constituting a series, the time limit
referred to in the preceding paragraph shall
commence on the date of effective distribution
of the issue in which the final work of the
series appeared.
2. Where the works referred to in this Article are
not signed, copyright therein shall be
attributed to the enterprise owning the
newspaper or publication in which they
appeared and their authors may only publish
them separately with the permission of the
enterprise.
Article 180
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