Official Gazette – Issue no. 12 (bis), March 29th, 2005
(a) The author has not withdrawn all the copies of his work from circulation.
(b) The license is not be eligible to be assigned by the licensee to any other party.
(c) The license does not prevent issuing a license to anyone other than the licensee,
unless the license is for translating the work into a cerian language, if the
translation is published in this language
(d) The name of the author and the title of the work, or an certified translation thereof
are mentioned on each copy.
Article (6): The application for license must include the following information:
(1) The applicant’s name, status, and address or chosen address.
(2) The title of the work and the name of its author, successor or the legal
representative of either of them.
(3) The name of the publisher of the work and the place of publication.
(4) The number of the copies that require licensing and the means of copying.
(5) Time and place limit of license validity in the Arab Republic of Egypt.
The application shall be accompanied by whatever proves that the license is required for
the purpose of fulfilling the requirements of any kind of education or levels whether
universities, institutes, training centers, scientific research, etc. The application shall, also,
be accompanied by whatever indicates that it has been difficult to reach the author, his/her
successor or the legal representative of either of them; what indicates that negotiations
were held with any of them, and a reasonable negotiation period lapsed without reaching
an agreement; or that the author, his/her successor or the legal representative of either of
them did not make enough copies adequate to answer the said requirements at a
reasonable price.
Article (7): The Appropriate office shall examine the application for license and
verify that all the conditions required to grant licenses are met.
The license shall be issued by virtue of a provisional decree by the Concerned Minister or
his/her authorized deputy, including setting the time and place limit of the license within 30
days as of the date of completing the required documents and paying the due fees in
accordance with the categories stated in the table attached hereto, provided that each
work does not exceed L.E. 1000.
Article (8): The licensing decision must include a fair remuneration to the author or his/her
successor for using the license. The remuneration shall be determined by a specialized
Committee of experts formed by virtue of a decision by the Concerned Minister.
The Committee shall, in the course of determining the remuneration, consider the
following:
(1) The protection remaining period.
(2) The purpose of the license.
(3) The type of the work.
(4) The remuneration offered during negotiation for copying or translating.
The license may not be used except after paying the said remuneration.