WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION 
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DU COMMERCE 
ORGANIZACION MUNDIAL DEL COMERCIO IP/N/1/JOR/C/1/Rev.l 
23 March 2004 
(04-1283) 
Council for Trade-Related Aspects of 
Intellectual Property Rights Original: English! 
MAIN DEDICATED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 
LAWS AND REGULATIONS NOTIFIED UNDER 
ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE AGREEMENT 
JORDAN 
Revision anglais/ 
ingh~s 
The present document reproduces the text! of the consolidated version of the Law on Copyright N° (22) 
of 1992 (see document IP/N/1/JORlC/l), the Law Amending the Copyright Law N° (14) of 1998 and the Law 
Amending the Copyright Law N° (29) of 1999 (see document IP/N/1/JORlC/1/Add.2)2, as notified by Jordan 
under Article 63.2 of the Agreement (see document IP/N/l/JORll). 
Conseil des aspects des droits de propriete 
intellectuelle qui touchent au commerce 
PRINCIPALES LOIS ET REGLEMENTATIONS CONSACREES A LA 
PROPRIETE INTELLECTUELLE NOTIFIEES AU TITRE 
DE L'ARTICLE 63:2 DE L'ACCORD 
JORDANIE 
Revision 
Le present document contient le texte! de la version consolidee de la Loi sur le droit d'auteur nO 22 de 
1992 (voir le document IP/N/l/JORlC/l), de la Loi modifiant la Loi sur le droit d'auteur n° 14 de 1998 et de la 
Loi modifiant la Loi sur le droit d'auteur n° 29 de 1999 (voir le document IP/N/1/JORlC/1/Add.2)2, notifie par la 
Jordanie au titre de l'article 63:2 de l'Accord (voir le document IP/N/1/JORll). 
Consejo de los Aspectos de los Derechos de Propiedad 
Intelectual relacionados con el Comercio 
PRINCIP ALES LEYES Y REGLAMENTOS DEDICADOS A LA 
PROPIEDAD INTELECTUAL NOTIFICADOS EN VIRTUD 
DEL P ARRAFO 2 DEL ARTiCULO 63 DEL ACUERDO 
JORDANIA 
Revision 
En el presente documento se reproduce el texto! de la version consolidada de la Ley de Derecho de 
Autor N° 22 de 1992 (vease el documento IP/N/1/JORlC/l), la ley por la que se modifica la Ley de Derecho de 
Autor N° 14 de 1998 y la ley por la que se modifica la Ley de Derecho de Autor N° 29 de 1999 (vease el 
documento IP/N/l/JORlC/l/Add.2)2, notificadas por Jordania en virtud del parrafo 2 del articulo 63 del Acuerdo 
(vease el documento IP/N/1/JORlI). 
! In English only. The text in the original language is available for consultation by interested Delegations at the 
WTO Secretariat.lEn anglais seulement. Les delegations interessees peuvent consulter le texte dans sa langue d'origine, au 
Secretariat de l'OMC/En ingles solamente. Las delegaciones interesadas podnin consultar en la Secretaria de la OMC el 
texto en su idioma original. 
2 Please note that no document has been issued with the reference IP/N/l/JOR/C/l IAdd. I .IOn notera qu'il n'existe 
pas de document portant la cote IP/N/1IJORlC/l/Add.1.ISenalamos a su atenci6n que no se ha editado ningun documento 
con la referencia IP/N/l/JOR/C/l/Add.l. IP/N/lIJORlC/lIRev.l 
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Jordanian Copyright Law 
Article 1 No. (22) Year 1992 
and anlendments 
Copyright Law 
This law is called (the copyright law for the year 1992), and 
shall enter into effect as of the date of its publication in the 
official gazette. 
Article 2 : 
The following words shall have the meaning assigned to 
them hereunder, unless the context indicates otherwise: 
The Ministry: 
The Minister 
Deposition: 
Fixation 
The center : The Ministry of Culture 
The minister of Culture 
Delivering the product to the center 
according to the law. 
Putting the product In a permanent 
physical form. 
Depositary center at the national library 
or any official party accredited by the 
Minister. Article 3 IPIN/l/JORlC/1/Rev.1 
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a) The innovative products in literature, arts and SCience, 
regardless of their kind, importance or purpose of their 
production. 
b) This protection includes the products which are expressed 
in the form of writing, voice, drawing, photography, or 
movement in particular. 
1-Books and booklets and other written materials. 
2-Products that are orally presented such as lectures,. 
speeches and preaches. 
3-Theatre products, musical and singing plays and 
gesture acting. 
4-Musical products whether numbered or not, or 
accompanied by words or not. 
5-Cinema and audio visual radio products. 
6-0rawings, photography, sculpture, architecture, 
applied sciences and ornaments works. 
7-Explanatory photos, maps, designs and maquettes, 
pertaining to geography and the land surface maps. 
8-Computer programs whether in the source language 
or machine language. 
c) The protection includes the product title, unless the title 
was a common expression to indicate the subject of the 
product. 
d) The literature and art products also enjoy the protection 
such as the encyclopedia, the selections and collected 
data, whether they were in an electronically read form or 
in any other form, and formed innovative intellectual 
works in terms of their contents selection or order. Also, 
the groups that include selected parts of poetry, prose, 
music or other, provided the source of the excerpts and 
their authors, without prejudice to the rights of the authors 
relevant to every product that forms part of these groups. IP/N/l/IOR/e/l/Rev.l 
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Article 4 : 
Is considered an author, the person that publishes the product 
as being his, whether by using his name on the product, or 
through any other method, unless there was an evidence to 
otherwise. This applies to the assumed name (nick name) 
provided that there is no doubt about the real character of the 
author. 
Article 5 
Without prejudice to the copyrights of the original product's 
author, he shall enjoy protection and be deemed an author for 
the purposes of this law: 
a) Whoever translates the product into another language or 
transforms it from a form of literature, arts, or science to 
another form, or summarizes it, converts it, arnends it, 
explains it, comments on it or indexes it, or other ways 
that display it in a new form. 
b) The performer that presents to the public an artistic work 
set by others whether this performance was through 
singing, playing, rhyming , orating, photographing, 
drawing, movements, steps or ant other way. 
c) The authors of the encyclopedia, the selections, collected 
data and the groups covered by protection under this law. 
Article 6 
If a product was innovated to the account of another person, 
the copyrights will belong to the innovative author unless 
otherwise agreed in writing. Article 7 : IPIN/l/JORJC/1/Rev.l 
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The protection stipulated under this law does not include the 
following products unless the groups of these products were 
characterized by a personal effort comprising innovation or 
order: 
a) The laws, regulations, judicial jUdgements, the decisions 
of the boards of directors, the international agreements 
and all official documents, and official translations of 
these products or any part thereof. 
b) The published, broadcast or publicly notified news. 
c) Products that became public property . The national 
folklore is considered public property for the purposes of 
this article, provided that the minister applies the 
copyrights for these products when facing distortior 
modification or damages directed to the cultural interests. 
Article 8 
The author alone: 
a) Has the right to have his product attributed to him, and to 
mention his name on all the produced copies whenever 
that product is presented to the public, unless the product 
was mentioned by chance during a relay of the news 
about current events. 
b) Has the right to decide upon the publication of his produ 
and to choose the method of publication and date thereof. 
c) Has the right to introduce any amendments to his product 
whether by changing it , editing it , deleting from it or 
adding thereto. 
d) Has the right to defend any aggression on his product and 
to prevent any distortion, modification thereof or any other 
amendment thereto, or any encroachment thereon that IP/N/1/JOR/C/1/Rev.l 
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would prejudice his reputation or honor . However, in the 
event of the occurrence of any deletion therefrom, change 
therein, addition thereto, or amendment thereto in the 
translation of the product, the author shall not have the 
right to prevent it , unless the translator omitted to 
mention the location of this amendment, or the translation 
affected the author's reputation and his cultural or artistic 
status or violated the content of the product. 
e) The right to withdraw his product from circulation if there 
were serious and legitimate causes therefor . In this case, 
the author shall be held liable to fairly compensate the party 
to whom the rights of financial exploitation were assigned. 
Article 9 
The author has the right to financially exploit his product in 
any way he chooses, and no one but him has the right to 
exercise this without a written approval from him or his 
successor. This includes: 
a) The right to print, broadcast and produce his product. 
b) The right to copy his product in all the physical forms 
including photography, cinema, or recording. 
c) The right to translate his product to another language, to 
musically adapt or distribute it or effect any modification 
thereto. 
d) The right to permit the use of a copy or more of his product 
by people that exploit it in leasing or lending works, and 
other works relevant to submitting the product to the 
public. 
e) The right to submit his product to the public through 
reading, presenting, display, acting, radio or television 
broadcast, cinema playing or any other method. Article 10 
In spite of the Article (9) herein: IPIN/l/JORlC/l/Rev.l 
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a) Any Jordanian citizen has the right to obtain a non­
restricted and non-assigned to others permit by the 
minister or whomever he delegates , to translate any 
foreign product published in a printed or any other form to 
the Arabic language, and to publish this translation in a 
printed and any other similar form, three years after the 
date of the publication of this product, and provided that a 
translation thereof was not published in Jordan by the 
owner of the right to translate or with his consent, or in the 
event of the exhaustion of the translated copies. 
b) Any Jordanian citizen shall have the right to obtain a non­
restricted license and non-assigned to any other party, by 
the minister or whomever he delegates to copy and 
publish any of the following published products, 
according to the following conditions: 
1-The elapse of three years following the date of the 
first publication of any printed product on 
technology, natural SCiences, physics, or 
mathematics, or the elapse of seven years following 
the first publication of poems, plays and musical 
works, art books and stories, or the elapse of five 
years following the first pUblication of any printed 
products. 
2-Provided that no copies thereof were distributed Itl 
the Kingdom to meet the needs of the public or for 
school or university education through the copyright 
owner or with his consent, for a price proportionate 
to the prices of products similar thereto in the 
Kingdom. 
3-Provided that the published copy is sold according to 
the provisions of this item for a price equal or less 
than the price stipulated in item (2) of this paragraph. IPINIlIJORlCIlIRev.l 
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c) The translation permits stipulated in paragraph (a) of this 
Article are only granted for the purposes of school, 
university education or researches, as for the copies 
stipulated in paragraph (b) of this Article, they are only 
granted to be used in the school or university education. 
d) When granting translation or copy permits, the originCJI 
author of the product that was translated or copied shall 
be entitled to a fair compensation, proportionate to the 
copyrights standards accredited in the optional licensing 
contracts, between people in the kingdom and people in 
the author's country. 
e) The conditions and procedures for granting permits stated 
in this Article are determined by virtue of regulations 
issued for this purpose. 
Article 12 : 
The copyright for any product may not be impounded, 
however, published copies of the product may be 
impounded, but the product whose owner dies before 
its publication may not be impounded unless :(t was 
proven that he has consented before his death to its 
publication. 
Arti cl e 13 
The author may dispose of the financial exploitation rights of 
his product, provided it is in writing, and that he explicitly 
states in details every right that can be disposed of, while 
indicating its extent, purposes thereof, as well as the duration 
and place of exploitation. Article 14 : IPINIlIJORlC/l/Rev.l 
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Is considered null and void the author's disposition of his 
total future intellectual production. 
Article 15 : 
The transfer of the ownership of the original copy of a 
product or of a unique copy or several copies ther·eof to 
others does not include the transfer of the copyright of this 
product to the others. However, whoever owns this copy or 
copies thereof shall have the right to display them to the 
public without being committed to enabling the author to 
copy, transfer or display them, unless agreed otherwise. 
Article 16 : 
The copyright of the author of the photography product does 
not entitle him to prevent others from taking a picture or 
more of the same thing subject-matter of the product, even if 
the picture or the new pictures have been taken from the 
same place, and under the same conditions in which the first 
photography was taken. 
Article 17 
The products published without the permission of the author 
may be used according to the following conditions and 
situations: 
a) Presenting the product, displaying it, acting it or rhyming it 
if it happened in a private family meeting or in an 
educational, cultural or social institution for clarification 
for educational purposes. The musical groups affiliated to 
the State may rhyme the musical products, provided for all 
this that this does not result in any financial return, and 
that the source and author are mentioned in it. IPINIl/JORlCIlIRev.1 
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b) Using the product for personal use, by making one copy 
through photocopying, recording, photography, 
translation or musical distribution, provided in all this that 
it does not violate the ordinary exploitation of the product, 
and that it does not cause any unjustifiable damage to the 
legitimate interests of the owner of the right. 
c) To depend on the product in clarification in education 
through printed materials, programs, audio visual and 
voice recording for educational, cultural, religious 
objectives or vocational training, within the limits requirec 
for fulfilling these objectives, provided that the aim of 
depending on the product in this case is not lucrative, and 
that the name of the product and its author are mentioned. 
d) To quote paragraphs from the product in another product 
for the purpose of clarification, explanation, discussing, 
criticizing, educating or testing in as much as justifiable by 
this objective, provided that the name of the product and 
its author are mentioned. 
Arti c I e 18 
The newspapers and periodicals may not relate episodes of 
stories and short stories and other products published in the 
other newspapers and newsletters, without the consent of 
their author. However, the newspapers may relate articles of 
political, economic and religious nature published in other 
newspapers which preoccupy the public opinion, unless it was 
stated in the newspaper in which those articles were published 
that they are not to be explicitly related, provided that in all 
cases the source from which they were relayed is mentioned. Arti c I e 19 : IP/N/lIJORlC/1/Rev.l 
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The newspapers and other media means may publish 
without the authorization of the author the speeches, 
lectures, talks and other similar products that are publicly 
presented or addressed to the public, provided that in all 
these cases the product and its author are mentioned, and 
that the author of any of these products publishes it in one 
printed material, or in any other manner of form he chooses. 
Article 20 : 
Public libraries and non-commercial documentation centers, 
educational institutes, scientific and cultural institutions may 
copy any product by photocopying it without the permission 
of the author, provided that the photocopies and the number 
of photocopies are limited to the need of those institutions, 
and that this process does not damage the copyright of the 
product's author, and that it does not violate the ordinary 
exploitation of that product. 
Articl e 21: 
The author's heir alone have the right to decide to publish his 
product that was not published during his life unless the 
author had bequeathed its non-pUblication or determined the 
time during which it can be published, and his will has to be 
abided by. IP/N/lIJORlC/1/Rev.l 
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Article 22 
The author's heir alone have the right to practice the financial 
exploitation rights stipulated herein for that product, provided 
that if the author has contracted in writing during his life with 
others concerning the exploitation of his product, this 
contract has to be implemented according to its conditions. 
Also, if more than an author have taken part in authoring the 
product, and one of them dies without leaving an heir, his 
part of the product will be equally given to the remaining 
authors participating in authoring it , unless otherwise 
agreed upon in writing. 
Article 23 
a) Subject to Article (17) herein 
l-The performer shall prevent others from establishing 
his non-established performance, copying or 
establishing his performance or broadcasting it 
using telecommunication means, and conveying it to 
the public without his approval. 
2-The radio and television corporation, or the owner of 
the right, the author have the right to prevent others 
from establishing the non-established radio 
programs, or copying I.e. establishing these 
programs or sending them using telecommunication 
means or conveying them to the public through the 
television broadcast without the approval of that 
body or the owner of the copyright. 
b) The producers of voice recordings or their successors or IP/NIlIJORlCIlIRev.l 
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whoever has any legal right pertaining to the vOice 
recording have the right to permit or prevent the direct or 
indirect copying of their voice recording, or lease the 
original copies or other copies to others for commercial 
purposes. 
c) The copyrights of the performers and producers of voice 
recording shall be valid for fifty years starting from 
January first of the year that follows the year in which the 
performance or establishment of the recording took place, 
according to the situation. 
d) This applies to the radio programs broadcast by any radio 
or television corporation for twenty years starting from 
January first of the year that follows the year in which the 
program was broadcast for the first time. 
Article 24 : 
The official television and radio corporations may prepare for 
their programs and through their own means a non­
permanent recording of any product they are licensed to 
broadcast or display provided they destroy all the copies of 
the product during a period of not more than one year as of 
the date of preparing those copies, unless the author agrees 
to extend this period. Excluded from this are the copies of the 
products that are of a documentary nature, and provided that 
not more than one copy of each of them is kept. 
Article 25 : 
Whoever made any picture shall not have the right to display 
the original of that picture, publish it , distribute, display it or 
display copies thereof without the permission of whom it 
represents. This provision shall not be valid if the publication 
of the picture occurred due to accidents that publicly occurred, 
or the picture concerned official men or publicly famous men, IPINIlIJORlCIl/Rev.l 
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or the public authorities permitted their broadcast to serve the 
public interest, provided in all cases that no picture shall be 
displayed, published, distributed or circulated if this would 
entail prejudice to the honor of whomever it represents, or his 
dignity, reputation or social status. However, the person that 
the picture represents may authorize its publication in the 
newspapers and magazines and other mass media even if the 
person who made the picture did not authorize this, unless 
otherwise agreed . These provisions apply to pictures 
regardless of the manner they were made whether by 
drawing, engraving, sculpture or any other manner. 
Article 26 
If any product did not carry the name of its author or carried 
an assumed name, the publisher of that product is 
considered authorized de jure by the author to practice his 
rights stipulated in this law until the author declares his 
character and proves it . 
Article 27 
If the heirs of the author of any product, or any person that is 
considered a successor to him according to the situation, did 
not practice their rights in financial exploitation of the 
product, the minister may practice those rights to publish the 
product or republish it if the heirs or the successors did not de 
that during six months of the date of the written notification 
sent to them by the minister, without prejudice to the right of 
the successor or heirs to a fair compensation for the 
publication or republication of the product, provided that the 
pu blicatio n or re-pu bl icatio n serves the pu bl ic in te rest. Article 28 : IPIN/lIJOR/C/l/Rev.1 
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The author has the right to dispose of OilY of his rights in the 
product based on participation with others, with a part of the 
income or profit resulting from the financial exploitation of 
the product by the others. Provided that he has the right to 
obtain an additional part of that income or yield, if it wa' 
found that the expenditure for the exploitation of his product 
was not fair, or became like this for reasons and conditions 
that were concealed at the time when the contract was 
concluded or occurred after that. 
Article 29 : 
The author of the original plLlstic or[ products, original 
musical and literary products or his heirs have the right to 
participate in the yield of every auction sale process of these 
products that follows the first assignment thereof by the 
author; and the regulations determine the conditions for 
practicing this right, and the rate of participation in the sales 
yield, and the method of their collection. Any agreement or 
arrangement concluded or held contrary ~iJ the provisions of 
this Article shall be considered null and void, provided that 
this provision does not apply to the products of architecture 
and applied sciences. 
Article 30 : 
The period of protection shall apply to the financial rights 
of the author stipulated herein during the life of the 
author and for fifty years after his death, or after the death 
of the last one alive of those who participated in 
authoring the product if there were more than one author 
. For the purposes of calculating the protection period, the 
date of death shall be deemed to have occurred on 
January first of the year that follows the actual date of 
death of the author. IPINIlIJORlCIlIRev.1 
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Arti c I e 31 
The protection period of the products shall apply for fifty 
years as of the date of their publication, provided that the 
calculation of this period starts from January first of the year 
that follows the actual date of their publication: 
a) The cinema and television production products, provided 
that in the event of their non-publication with the approval 
of the copyright owner during fifty years of the date of 
completing that product, the period of protection shall 
apply as of the date of their completion which is 
considered to be the first of January of the year in which 
the actual completion of the product took place. 
b) Any product which author or owner its copyright is a 
corporeal person. 
c) The product that is published for the first time after the 
death of its author. 
d) The product that does not carry the name of its author, or 
carries an assumed name, provided that if the author 
revealed his identity during the protection period, the 
period of protection will start from the date of the death of 
the author. 
Article 32 : 
The protection duration of the following products shall apply 
for twenty five years as of the date of their completion which 
is considered January First of the year that follows the year in 
which the actual completion of the product took place: 
a) The photography products. 
b) The applied sciences products. Article 33 IPINIlIJOR/CllIRev.l 
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a) The product shall be deemed published as of the date of 
its placement at the disposal of the public for the first 
time, and its republication is not considered for this 
purpose unless the author introduced basic 
amendments when republishing it due to which it can be 
considered a new product. 
b) If the product comprises a number of parts or volumes 
published at different times, every part or volume is 
considered an independent product concerning the date 
of publication. 
Article 34 : 
a) After the elapse of the protection period stipulated herein 
for any product, or when no heirs to its author nor 
successor are available before the elapse of the protection 
period, the product will be considered public property so 
that any person will have the right to print it, publish it or 
translate it if it was printed it, published or translated 
before. 
b) If the product stipulated in paragraph (a) of this Article was 
not printed, published or translated before becoming 
public property, no right in it may be exploited including 
printing it, publishing it or translating it unless by a license 
of the minister. This licensing shall apply for fifteen years, 
provided it is considered cancelled if its owner did not use 
it during one year, or if he started to do so then stopped for 
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Article 35 : 
a) If more than a person took part in authoring one product so 
that the share of everyone of them in authoring could not 
be separated, they would all be considered equal owners 
of the product, unless otherwise agreed. No one of them 
may in this case practice the copyright in the product 
unless they all agree to that, and each of them has the 
right to institute an action in the event of any 
encroachment upon the right of the author. 
b) However, if it was possible to separate the share of 
everyone of the people taking part in authoring the 
product from the share of his partners, each of them will 
be entitled to exploit the copyright in the part he 
contributed in authoring, provided that this does not 
prejudice the exploitation of the product itself or the rights 
of all the partners in the product, unless agreed otherwise. 
c) If a group took part in authoring a product under the 
directives of a natural or corporeal person, and it is called 
a collective product, and this person was committed to 
publishing it in his name and under his administration, 
whereas the work of the participants in it was integrated 
in the public objective targeted by that person from the 
product or the idea he created it for, so that the work 
carried out by each of the participants in authoring the 
product cannot be separated or distinguished , the 
person that directed and organized the innovation of the 
product shall be considered an author thereof, and has 
alone the right to practice the copyright therein. 
Article 36 
a) The employees of the copyright office at the national 
library department authorized by the minister are 
considered judiciary officers during their implementation 
of the law. IP/NIlIJORlC/1/Rev.1 
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b) In the event that there was any suspicion indicating the 
occurrence of any violation of this law in any place that is 
in charge of printing the products, copying them, 
producing or distributing them, the employees of the 
copyright office shall have the right to inspect this place, 
seize the copies and the materials used in committing 
these infractions and refer them with their perpetrators to 
the court, and the minister has the right to ask the court to 
close down the place. 
Article 37 : 
a) Is considered a partner in authoring the cinema, radio and 
television products : 
1-The scenario author, or the owner of the written idea 
of the program. 
2-Whoever modified the existing literary product in a 
manner that renders it suitable for implementation. 
3-The dialogue author in the cinema, radio or television 
product. 
4-The composer in the cinema, radio or television 
product. 
5-The product producer if he actually started to control 
its implementation, and he made something 
intellectually positive to realize the product. 
b) If the product was a simplified form of another previous 
product or one extracted from it, the author of the 
previous product would be considered a partner in the 
new product. 
c) The scenario author of the literary product, and whoever 
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producer, have jointly the right to display the new product 
without that the author of the original literary product or 
the music composer has the right to object to that, 
provided that this does not prejudice the rights incurred 
to him for authoring the product or composing it . Each of 
the author of the literary part and musical part in the 
product, has the right to publish the part he owns in any 
other manner than the cinema, radio or television unless 
otherwise agreed. 
d) If any of the participants in the authoring of a product 
refused to do what he has to do or to complete the work 
required of him, this will not result in preventing any of 
the other p~lrticipants in the authoring of the product, 
from using the part he has completed therein, provided 
this does not prejudice the rights incurred 10 an\' of them 
due to their participation in the product. 
e) Is considered a producer of the cinema, radio or television 
product the person that implements this product or 
shoulders the responsibility of this implementation, and 
places at the disposal of its authors the physical and 
financial means for producing the product. 
f) The producer of the cinema, radio or television product is 
considered a publisher thereof, and shall have all the 
publisher's rights for the product and copies thereof, and 
he shall be throughout the whole agreed upon period for 
exploiting the product acting on behalf of all its authors 
and their successors in contracting with third parties for 
the display and exploitation of the product without 
prejudice to the rights of the authors of the other quoted 
literary and musical products, unless it was otherwise 
agreed upon in this paragraph. Article 38 IPINIlIJORlCllIRev.l 
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Subject to the provisions of Article (45) herein, every product 
published or printed in the Kingdom for a jordanian or non­
jordanian author shall be subject to the deposition provisions 
stipulated herein. Moreover, every product published or 
printed outside the Kingdom for a Jordanian author shall be 
subject to these provisions if distributed in the Kingdom. 
Provided that the deposition takes place for free before 
displaying the product for sale or distribution inside the 
Kingdom, and the deposited copies of the product when 
,reprinting it are in conformity to the deposition provisions by 
virtue of this law. 
Article 39 : 
Each of the author and publisher of the product and the owner 
of the printing house where it was printed, and the producer 
and distributor thereof shall be responsible for its deposition. 
Moreover, the importer of any product or his representative 
shall be responsible for depositing the product th;:l! was 
printed, published or produced outside the Kin~Jdom for a 
jordanian author. 
Article 40 : 
Every product shall be given a special deposition number, 
and the center shall deduce the technical data from the 
product for the purposes of indexing and classifying the 
printed products according to the rules followed in this 
respect. These data are delivered to the person concerned to 
affix them on the produc. IPIN/l/JORlC/l/Rev.l 
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Article 41 
Each of the author of the product, if he is a writer, and its 
publisher as well as the owner of the printing house where it 
was printed shall be responsible for affixing the indexing, 
classification data, and the deposition number of its date on 
the back of the page of the product's address. As for tile 
products that are not books, the deposition number shall be 
affixed in any apparent place of the product. 
Article 42 : 
Every printing house or party in charge of printing the 
product, publishing , producing or c1istributillg it in the 
Kingdom shall present every six months a statement with the 
products that it printed, published, produced or distributed 
according to the form prepared by the center for this purpose. 
Article 43 : 
The center issues periodical bibliographic data in the form of 
lists including the products that were deposited at th e cen ter 
. It also is in charge of the bibliographic information in this 
respect. 
Article 44 : 
The center organizes a unified index to define the products 
available at the libraries, the information and documentation 
centers at the Kingdom stating in it the place in which every 
product is , as well as the libraries and the information and 
documentation centers included in the unified index, and thl 
commitments and duties required of them by a decision of 
the minister. Article 45 : IPINIlIJORlC/I/Rev.l 
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The non-deposition of the product does not violate the 
author's rights stipulated herein. 
Article 46 : 
a) The court may, upon the request of the owner of the right, 
or any of his heirs or successors, take the following 
actions concerning a product in which the copyright was 
violated or any of the rights stated in Article (23) herein, 
provided that the request includes a detailed and 
comprehensive description of the product: 
1-To order the halting of the violation of the product or 
any part thereof. 
2-To confiscate the product, its copies and pictures and 
any mi?terials used in copying, provided they are not 
useful for anything else. 
3-To confiscate the exploitation revenues of the 
published product through public performance. 
b) The request may be submitted before and after the 
institution of the lawsuit. 
c) When proving that the person placing the request is the 
owner of the copyright. and that his rights have been 
violated or about to be violated, the court may take any of 
the actions stipulated in paragraph (a) of this article in a 
reserved manner to prevent the violation from occurring 
or in order to maintain a proof related to the violation 
deed. 
d) In the cases In which the delay may cause irreparable 
damage to the owner of copyright, or in the cases' 
involving risks that can be proven with the loss of 
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any of the actions stipulated in paragraph (a) of this Article 
in a reserved manner, without notifying the defendant and 
in his absence. The injured parties are notified by the 
court about the measures taken as soon as they are taker 
The defendant may ask for a hearing to hear what is being 
said during a reasonable period of time after being 
notified of the measure. The court has to decide in this 
hearing whether the reserved action was to be confirmed, 
amended or cancelled. 
e) The request for a reserved action should be accompanied 
by an adequate financial guaranty according to 
paragraphs (c) and (d) of this Article to prevent 
arbitrariness and to guaranty any damages that the 
Defendant may incur if the Plaintiff's claim was not 
grounded. 
f) Based on the request of the Defendant, the reserved actions 
taken are cancelled before instituting a lawsuit accordil 
to paragraphs (c) and (d) of this Article if the lawsuit was 
not instituted in a period of eight days of the date of 
issuance of the court order to take the action. 
g) In the cases where the taken reserved action is cancelled 
according to the paragraphs (c) and (d) of this Article, due 
to the elapse of the period for instituting the lawsuit or 
because of the Plaintiffs default, or it was proven that 
there was no aggression or risk of aggression, upon the 
request of the Defendant, the court may order a suitable 
compensation for the damages resulting from these 
actions. 
h) The court may order the claimant, who arbitrarily asked for 
the actions stated in this article, to compensate the party 
against which the action was taken an adequate 
compensation for the damage he incurred as a result of 
this arbitrariness. Article 47 IP/N/lIJOR/C/1/Rev.l 
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a) The court may, upon the request of the author or any of his 
heirs or successors, rule to destroy the product's copies or 
the picture taken of it, which was illegitirnately published 
and the materials used in publishing it, and it may instead 
of destroying them, rule to change the features of the 
copies, pictures and materials or render them unfit for 
use. However, if the court discovers that the author's 
copyright in the product elapses after two years of the 
date of the judgement becoming absolute, it may rule 
instead of that to affix the impound to honor the 
compensations ruled for the author. 
b) The court may not rule to destroy the copies of any 
product or pictures taken from it or to change their 
features if the dispute was about the translation of the 
product into the arabic language. The court's order in this 
case should be restricted to impounding the product, its 
copies or the pictures taken from it according to the 
situation. 
c) The court may order the confiscation of the product or the 
copies thereof, and the materials used in producing it and 
selling them within the limits that would be adequate te 
compensate the author for the damages he incurred, 
instead of destroying those copies, changing their features 
or destroying those materials. 
d) The buildings and the SCUlpture, drawings or ornaments 
and architectural forms on it may not be impounded, and 
a ruling may not be issued to destroy them, or change 
their features, or confiscate them for the purpose of 
preserving the architectural rights of the author whose 
designs were used for the building and drawings in an 
illegitimate manner, provided he honors his rights for a 
fair compensation of that. IPIN/l/JORlCI1!Rev.l 
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Arti cl e 48 : 
Subject to Article (47), a ruling may be rendered to reinstate 
any product whose author's rights were violated, to its 
pervious state, including the introduction of any amendment 
thereto, or deletion of parts thereof to accomplish thut 
purpose. 
Article 49 : 
The author whose rights in his product were violated under 
this law, has the right to obtain a fair compensation for that, 
provided that the cultural status of the author, and the 
literary, scientific or artistic value thereof are taken into 
account when evaluating the said compensation, and the 
extent of benefit that the aggressor obtairJed from exploiting 
the product. The compensation awarded to the author in this 
case is considered an excellent debt on the net selling price 
of things that were used in the violation of his right and the 
sums impounded in the lawsuit. 
Article 50 : 
The court may, upon the request of the judgement creditor, 
decide to publish the ruling it renders by virtue of this law in 
one or more local daily or weekly newspapers at the expense 
of the judgement debtor. 
Article 51: 
a) Shall be sentenced to prison for a period of not less than 
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than three thousand Dinars, or to one of these two 
punishments: 
1-Everyone who practiced without a legal deed one of 
the rights stipulated in Articles 8,9,10,23 of this law. 
2-Everyone who displayed for sale, circulation or lease 
an imitated product, or copies thereof, or broadcast it 
to the public as being imitated in any manner 
whatsoever, or entered it to the Kingdom or taken it 
out of it, knowing it is imitated. 
c) In the event of repetition of any of the crimes stipulated in 
para (a) of this Article, , its perpetrator shall be sentenced 
to the maximum imprisonment sentence and to the 
highest fine. The court in this case may rule to close down 
the institution in which the crime was committed for a 
period of not more than a year, or to stop its licensing for 
a certain period or indefinitely. 
Article 52 : 
Everyone who violates Articles 38,39,41,42 herein shall be 
sentenced to paying a fine of not less than five hundred 
Dinars, and not more than one thousand Dinars . This 
sentence shall not exempt him from implementing the 
provisions stipulated in those Articles. 
Article 53 : 
a) The provisions of this law shall apply to the products of the 
jordanian and foreign authors that are published or not 
published and are expressed in any of the methods 
stipulated in paragraph (b) of Article (3) inside the 
Kingdom, and to the products of jordanian authors 
published or not published and expressed ill (my of the 
methods stipulated in paragraph (b) of Article (3) outside 
the Kingdom. IPINIlIJORlC/IlRev.1 
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b) Subject to the provisions of the international agreements 
pertaining to the copyrights, and in the event of their non­
applicability, the principle of equal treatment is taken into 
consideration. The provisions of this law shall apply to 
the products of the foreign authors that are published or 
not published and expressed in any of the methods 
stipulated in paragraph (b) of Article (3) herein outside the 
Kingdom. 
c) For the purposes of applying the provisions of this Article, 
the authors residing in any of the member countries of the 
international agreements on copyrights to which Jordan 
has adhered, even if they are not citizens thereof, shall be 
treated as citizens of the Kingdom. Moreover, this Article 
shall apply to the owners of the rights stipulated in Article 
(23) herein. 
Article 54 : 
The law shall apply to the existing products at the time of its 
enforcement, with the exception of Articles 41, 42, 51 and 52, 
whose provisions shall only apply to the facts and deeds that 
take place after the enforcement of the provisions of this law. 