Beirut:
- Allenby street by night
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....Today the Beirut Central District has regained its attractiveness
as the restoration of many of its buildings has been completed. Of particular
note is the area around Foch-Allenby, which has a historic and diversified
architecture, characterized by facades decorated and sculpted from yellow
stone, inspired by Ottoman, Italian, and French styles. Elegant wrought
iron work adds beauty to their balconies and facades. Permanent and temporary
activities are now merging in Beirut city center, much to the enjoyment
of young and old. The Souk al Barghout flea market has been drawing large
crowds of people who spend the long evenings shopping, or browsing through
the wonderful array of antiques, paintings, jewelry, handicrafts and carpets,
on display in the various shops and stalls in and around the beautifully
restored buildings. Residents, returnees and visitors are thus reclaiming
the city center's open space, walking, jogging and riding bicycles in addition
to shopping or resting in public gardens. Indoor and outdoor restaurants
and charming cafes and pubs have opened throughout the district where residents
and visitors can enjoy themselves well into the night.....
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Decree
N. 2385 of 17/1/1924 as amended by law N. 76 of 3/4/1999 ( articles 2, 5,
15, 49 and 85 ) lays down as follows:
The author of a literary or artistic work, by the very fact of authorship,
has absolute right of ownership over the work, without obligation of recourse
to formal procedures . The author will himself enjoy the benefit of exploitation
of his work, and he possesses exclusive rights of publication and of the
reproduction under any form whatsoever. Whether the work in question comes
under the public domain or not those persons will be liable to imprisonment
for a period of one to three years and to fine of between five and fifty
million Lebanese pounds, or to either one of these penalties, who
1-will
have appended or caused to be appended a usurped name on a literary or artistic
work;
2-will have fraudulently imitated the signature or trademark adopted by
an author, with a view to deceiving the buyer;
3-will have counterfeited a literary or artistic work;
4-or will have knowingly sold, received, or put on sale or into circulation
a work which is counterfeit or signed with a forged signature.
The punishment will be increased in the event of repetition.