Article 9 of the Saudi Copyright Law

If Article 8 protects the personal bond between the author and his work, this article protects his right to benefit financially from it.

First: the author or his delegate may do all or some of the following acts according to the nature of the work:

1. Printing, publishing and recording: printing the work and publishing it in readable form, or recording it on audio or video tapes, compact discs, electronic memory or any other means of publication.
2. Translation, adaptation and modification, and redistribution of audio or visual material.
3. Communication to the public by any possible means, such as display, performance, radio broadcasting or through information networks (the internet).
4. All forms of material exploitation of the work in general, including permitted commercial rental.

In practice, these activities are the right of the author or his delegate, so anyone who wants to print, translate or broadcast another person's work needs the owner's permission or authorization, subject to what the law provides elsewhere.

Second: authors of literary and artistic works, their performers, their adapters, producers of audio recordings and broadcasting organizations enjoy their financial rights as explained by the Implementing Regulations. The law itself does not detail the rights of these groups, and their details are in the regulations.

These rights are independent of the moral rights set out in Article 8, such as attribution of the work to the author and preventing its distortion, which remain with their owner and are not lost by granting the right of exploitation. A lawyer who specializes in intellectual property and copyright can help draft authorization or license contracts.