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Any disposal of the rights provided for in Articles (5) paragraph one, (7) paragraph one and (9) shall be regarded as null and void. Article(40) The author may dispose of his rights in the work, whether whole or partial, on the basis of a share percentage in the revenue resulting from utilization of the work. However, if it is revealed that the agreement was unfair to the author's rights or becomes so because of conditions which occurred after the agreement, the judge may according to the circumstances and after comparing the interests of the two parties decide in favour of the author, an increase over the agreed net profit realized from the work's utilization. Article (41) It shall be regarded as null and void the disposal of all the author's future intellectual output. Article (42) If the ownership of the original copy of any type of work of art is transferred, this shall not include the transfer of the copyright in that work. However, the transferee shall not be obligated to grant the author the right to copy, reproduce or display the work, unless otherwise agreed. Article (43) The author shall have exclusive right, if serious moral reasons arise, to ask the court of first instance to decide the withdrawal of his work from circulation or the introduction of substantial modifications to it, in spite of his disposal of the financial exploitation rights. The author shall be obligated in this case to pay to the party to which the financial exploitation devolved a fair compensation to be estimated by the court, which may decide to obligate the author to pay this compensation in advance within a certain period of time, otherwise this will invalidate the decision of the court, or the court may obligate the author to present a guarantor acceptable to it. PART THREE Chapter One Procedures Article(44) The court of first instance may, at the request of the concerned parties, order making a detailed description of the work which was illegally published or re-published, or the seizure of the original copy, its copies or photocopies, as well as the material used in re-

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