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Chapter Two Protection of Works of Public Property & Traditional Cultural Heritage Article 139: The National Bureau of Copyrights and Neighboring Rights shall protect works of public property and traditional cultural heritage. Article 140: The utilization of works mentioned in Article 139 above shall be subject to a license from the National Bureau of Copyrights and Neighboring Rights. However, if the utilization is profitable, the National Bureau shall receive a royalty to be calculated in proportion to the revenues or arbitrarily calculated as per the terms specified in the collection system thereof. The royalty mentioned in the previous paragraph shall be allocated to finance counting and maintaining works. Article 141: The National Bureau shall control the extent of appropriate utilization of works provided for in Article 139 herein, and shall be free to reject or suspend each utilization that is detrimental thereto. Article 142: Each user of works provided for in Article 139 herein shall respect the integrity of these works and shall be keen to notify them to public subject to the originality thereof. PART SIX PROCEDURES & PENALTIES Chapter One Civil Lawsuit Article 143: The judicial lawsuit to compensate damages resulting from unlicensed utilization of the author’s work and the performance of the neighboring rights owner shall be the jurisdiction of the civil judicial authorities. Article 144: The rights’ owner who has incurred damage may ask the competent judicial authority to take procedures that prevent imminent infringement of his rights or stop such visible infringement and compensate for damages incurred thereto. The compensations shall be estimated in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Law subject to the gains earned from rights infringement. Article 145: The judicial police officers or sworn assistants associated with the National Bureau of Copyrights and Neighboring Rights shall inspect the infringement of authors’ rights or neighboring rights. Article 146: In addition to the judicial police officers, sworn assistants associated with the National Bureau of Copyrights and Neighboring Rights shall be entitled, in a precautionary capacity, to seize copies of counterfeit works or performances mediums, provided that they are placed under the National Bureau custody.

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