Article 152: A person who violates the protected rights under this order, i.e. conveys a work or
performance by way of acting or public performance, audio or audio-video broadcasting, or
distribution of signals bearing sounds or sounds and images via cable, any other transmission
means or any information processing system shall be considered as committing counterfeit
misdemeanor.
Article 153: A person who commits the misdemeanor of a work or performance counterfeit as
provided for in Articles 151 and 152 above, shall be penalized by imprisonment for a period not
less than 6 months and not more than 3 years and shall be fined for not less than 500000 derhams
and not more than 1.000.000 derhams whether publication has occurred in Algeria or abroad.
Article 154: Each person who participates by his work or the means he owns in infringing the
author’s rights or any owner of neighboring rights shall be considered as committing the
misdemeanor provided for in Article 151 herein and shall deserve the penalty set forth in Article
153 above.
Article 155: Each person who deliberately refuses to pay the reward due to the author or any
other owner of neighboring rights in violation to rights recognized under the rights provided for
herein shall be considered as committing the counterfeit misdemeanor and shall deserve the same
penalty set forth in Article 153 above.
Article 156: The penalty provided for in Article 153 above shall be duplicated in case of
recurrence.
The competent judicial authority may decide to temporarily close the institution exploited by the
counterfeiter or his partner for a period not exceeding 6 months or it may decide the final
closure, when necessary.
Article 157: The competent judicial authority shall decide to:
- Confiscate the amounts equal to the amount of revenues or revenues instalments generated
from illegal utilization of a protected work or performance.
- Confiscate and damage all the supplies specifically procured to initiate the illegal activity and
all counterfeit copies.
Article 158: The competent judicial authority may, upon the request of the civil party, order the
complete or partial publication of conviction rulings in the newspapers it determines, and posting
these rulings in the places it determines including the door of convicted person’s dwelling and
each institution or party hall owned by him, stipulated that it is on the expense of the latter
provided that these expenses do not exceed the ordered fine.
Article 159: The competent judicial authority shall order in all cases provided for in Articles 151
and 152 herein, the delivery of supply, counterfeit copies or the total value thereof and revenues
or revenues’ instalments subject matter of confiscation to the author, any other owner of rights or
their successors to be, when necessary, as a compensation for the damage they incur.