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2 producers of phonograms and videograms and persons who or which reproduce
phonograms or videograms on behalf of the producers thereof;
3 legal persons or organizations, a list of which shall be drawn up by the Ministry
responsible for culture, that use recording media for the purpose of assisting visually or
aurally impaired persons.
Article 118: The manufacture, assembly, sale, exchange, hire or making available to the
public in any way of any digital audio recording apparatus that does not have a digital
audio anticopying device shall be subject to prior authorization by the Ministry
responsible for culture.
The same authorization shall be required for any apparatus, process, device or service, the
purpose of which is to remove, bypass, deactivate and more generally make inoperative a
digital audio anticopying device or a device for limiting the possibility of copying or
recopying.
A regulatory text shall lay down the rules exempting certain digital audio recording
apparatuses from the preceding provisions, where such apparatuses are intended
exclusively for lawful professional purposes.
The present Article and any provisions that may be enacted under the foregoing
paragraphs shall not impede the implementation of the provisions of Chapter 1 of this
part of the Law concerning recording media that can be used by means of digital
processes.
Chapter 2: Copyright Office
Article 119: A public administrative institution known as the Chadian Copyright Office,
abbreviated as BUTDRA, is hereby created under the Ministry responsible for culture.
Pursuant to the present Law, BUTDRA shall be responsible for the collective
management of copyright and neighboring rights.
In that capacity it shall be responsible for:
1 – the organization and representation of authors of literary and artistic works and their
successors in title;
2 – the promotion and defense of the professional, material and moral interests of such
authors and their successors in title;
3 – the promotion of national creativity in the literary, artistic and scientific fields;