Article 133: Each author or any other owner of national rights who wishes to add the managing
functions of his rights and the control of different utilization forms of his works or performances
to the collective management shall join the National Bureau of Copyrights and Neighboring
Rights.
Article 134: The author, as a member of the National Bureau of Copyrights and Neighboring
Rights, or any other owner of rights shall be exclusively entitled, for each country, to license
different forms of utilizing all his current and future works or performances or prohibit thereof.
Article 135: The National Bureau of Copyrights and Neighboring Rights shall ensure the
protection of copyrights or each other owner of rights from members therein and authors or any
other foreign owner of rights who resides in Algeria or abroad, represented by reciprocal
representation agreements with similar foreign organizations, as long as a work or performance
from their indices is the subject of public utilization.
The National Bureau of Copyrights and Neighboring Rights shall represent those authors and
each other owner of rights before users within the framework of its activity related to rights and
performances collective enforcement, and shall ensure a protection similar to that enjoyed by
authors and other member rights owners in accordance with the Algerian international
commitments regarding the foreign rights owner.
Article 136: The National Bureau of Copyrights and Neighboring Rights shall receive each
permit of literary or artistic work accomplished by the author or any other owner of rights in
order to evidence the ownership of the work and protected rights in accordance with the
provisions herein.
The work’s permit for the National Bureau of Copyrights and Neighboring Rights shall not
represent a stipulation to recognize the rights entitled as per the provisions herein.
Article 137: The National Bureau of Copyrights and Neighboring Rights shall offer the works
and performances from indices it represents to public users, and shall allow their utilization
according to reasonable terms and in return for fair reward.
The National Bureau of Copyrights and Neighboring Rights shall not itself license the exclusive
utilization of these works and performances without the approval of rights’ owners.
Article 138: A reconciliation board shall be established in the Ministry of Culture charged with
settling the disputes which would arise between the National Bureau of Copyrights and
Neighboring Rights and users or associations representing users of works and performances in
relation to terms of utilizing indices managed by the National Bureau.
The provisions of this Article shall not be applicable to works and performances of public
property and traditional cultural heritage.
The structure, organization and operation of the board mentioned in the first paragraph above
shall be determined through the regulation.