Nahr
Ibrahim - Janneh.
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....Today,
the challenge of this river has been accepted and it has been brought under
control. Electric power stations have captured its surging waters and market
gardens bring forth their produce wherever level ground extends along its
banks. It has become the joyous servant of the people of the valley, at
the same time offering sightseers and lovers of nature shaded retreats through
which its tumultuous forces tumble and roar.
There is one particularly Arcadian spot, El Janeh or El Firdous (Paradise),
where this river gives generously of itself above its pebbles through the
reeds and verdant shrubbery. One may enjoy the shade of the remains of the
pillars of the Roman aqueduct that crossed the torrent to convey its waters
to the city of Byblos, but one must not forget to go first up and then down
the elegant Arab bridge only a short walk from the shore.....
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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.