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under the directives of a natural or legal person, who sponsors its publication under his management and the work of the participants is merged in the general objective intended by this natural or legal person, so that the work of each one of the participants cannot be separated. The natural or legal person who directed the creation of the work shall be considered as author of the work and he shall have exclusive right to exercise the author's rights therein. Article(28) If a work of art bears a pseudonym or is anonymous, then it shall be assumed that the author has authorized the publisher to exercise the rights provided for in this law, unless the author appoints another agent or reveals his identity and proves it. Article(29) If more than one person participates in compiling a music-song work, the author of the musical part shall have exclusive right to license to others the public performance of the whole work, its execution, publication or making copies thereof, provided this does not prejudice the copyright of the literary part. The author of the literary part shall have exclusive right to publish his part. However, he may not dispose of this part to be the basis of another musical work, unless otherwise agreed. Article(30) In works of art executed with movements accompanied with music, shows accompanied with music and all similar works, the author of the part other than the musical part shall have the right to license to others the public performance of the whole work, its execution and making copies thereof. The composer of the musical part shall have the right to dispose of the musical part only, provided it shall not be used in a work similar to the joint work, unless otherwise agreed. Article (31) Each of the following shall be considered as a partner in composing cinematic works or works prepared for radio or television broadcasting: 1- The scenarist or the author of the written theme of the programme. 2- The adapter of the literary part to make it executable. 3- The dialogist. 4- The work's musical composer if he composed the music specifically for the work. 5- The director if he has exercised actual control in executing it and has achieved positive results action from the intellectual aspect to bring the work into being. If the cinematic

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