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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.

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