Beirut:
- Roman Thermal Baths, Rue des Banques
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....In
the great days of Rome, it was the seat of celebrated school of law, rivaling
those of Alexandria and Athens. Since 1920 it has been the capital of Lebanon,
with a million inhabitants and an intensely active and thoroughly modern
international airport. Beirut is the seat of the Lebanese Parliament, with
128 deputies, and the fine, spacious Martyrs' Square facing the sea, as
well as very old churches and mosques and a valuable archeological museum.
It has first-class hospitals - the American Hospital, Hôtel Dieu, Saint
George's and Jettawi. There are very lively shopping centers and
bazaars, and in the hinterland there are picturesque villages scattered
over the lower slopes of the Lebanese mountain range. Visitors gather to
contemplate the Pigeon grotto rising out of the sea, an arched rock marking
the Beirut headland. In Short, Beirut is a city with every kind of tourist,
artistic and cultural attraction. See it for yourself.....
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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.