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shall be disclosed to the public or published with or without the name

of the author or under a pseudonym. However, when the creator of the

work is under dispute or any person claims to be the real author of the

work, the real author of a work may request to establish his right from

the Civil Courts for Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights.

Third, no modifications may be made to a work or to the name of

its owner without the owner’s consent.

Fourth, the original author has rights against persons who own or

possess a work. Where the work is in a single original form, the origi-

nal author may request to use the work in retrospectives and exhibi-

tions covering all of his working periods, subject to conditions of pro-

tection, and provided that it will be returned to the owner.

Financial Rights

The owner of a work has financial rights and authorities on the

work and shall exclusively use them. The rights in works created by

civil servants, employees and workers during the execution of their

duties shall be exercised by the persons who employ or appoint them.

This rule is valid for the organs of the legal persons. The producer or

publisher of a work may exercise the economic rights in accordance

with a contract to be concluded with the author.

The types of financial rights the author may exercise are disclosed

in section III under the Law No. 5846. The first financial right of an

author is the right to exploit a work by adapting it. Second, the author

may exclusively reproduce the original or copies of a work in any form

or by any method, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, temporar-

ily or permanently.

Third, the author may exclusively rent, lend, put up for sale or dis-

tribute in any other way, the original or copies of a work. Also, the

author has the exclusive right to import copies of a work that have been

reproduced abroad with his permission and to exploit such works by

distribution.

Fourthly, the right to exploit a work by performing it in such ways

as reciting, playing, acting or displaying it on public premises either

directly or by means of devices enabling the transmission of signs,

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