Compulsory Licensing
The Jordanian Minister of Culture has the right to assign a nonexclusive, non-assignable license to Jordanian nationals for either of two purposes:
- translation and publication of a foreign work to the Arabic language, provided that no such translation was made by the author within three years form the work's initial publication
- publication of a work for sale at a lower or equal price as similar works offered for sale in Jordan
Compulsory licensing is only granted for uses tied to education, and in all cases the author of the original work remains entitled to just compensation.
(see Article 11 of the Jordanian Copyright Law No. 22 for the year 1992)
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