Regarding intellectual rights, and in order not to fall into a legal crime punishable by law, the legal advisor, Dr. Ibrahim Zamzmi, was with us to answer your inquiries:
• How does the author preserve her rights? What are the steps that must be taken to preserve their rights?
•• The author has the right to attribute the work to him, and he has the right to object to any infringement of his work, and to prevent any deletion, change, addition, distortion, distortion, or any other infringement of the work itself. The author is to regulate his relations and rights with production, printing, publishing and distribution institutions, broadcasting organizations and other entities licensed to carry out their activities under documented contracts specifying all rights and obligations of all relevant parties, as well as obligating production, printing, publishing and distribution institutions, broadcasting organizations and others not to engage in any activity related to copyright. Except after concluding a contract with the copyright owners or their legal agent, in which the rights and obligations of each party are specified.
• What are the penalties for stealing an author's content and making a movie from it or quoting it without the original author's permission or reference to that?
•• These penalties are a warning, or a fine not exceeding 150,000 riyals, or closing the infringing establishment or that contributed to the infringement of copyright for a period not exceeding two months, or confiscating all copies of the work as well as the materials allocated or used in committing the infringement. copyright, or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 6 months. In the event of repeated infringement of the same work or others, the maximum penalty, fine and closure may be doubled, and the Committee may decide financial compensation for the infringed copyright owner who submits a complaint, provided that the compensation is proportionate to the The extent of the assault and the damage incurred. The committee may also include in its decision a penalty of defamation against the aggressor. Publication shall be at his expense and in the manner the committee deems appropriate.
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