Zahleh - The Bride of the Beqaa
.....
....Each
year between the 10th and 20th of September Zahlé mounts its week-long
" Festival of the Vine", a celebration shared with the city's "
Flower Festival". In a carnival-like atmosphere "Miss Vine"
is elected and cars are decorated with flowers representing national symbols.
Zahleh is also famous for its
Corpus Christi festival which dates back to 1825, when the town was
spared the ravages of a contagious disease. Corpus-Christi is celebrated
on the first Thursday of June with a torch-light parade held on the eve of
the festival.
The next morning a Mass is celebrated place at Our Lady of Najat Church,
followed by a procession of townspeople following the Holy Eucharist through
the streets..... ....
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.