2° by disclosing or exploiting such secrets learned or discovered under the conditions referred to in the preceding paragraph. Section 6: Offenses against artistic or literary property Article 346: Shall constitute offense any act by which a natural person or legal entity uses or exploits an intellectual property right without the prior authorization of the owner or his eligible successors. Any person who commits counterfeiting shall be punished by imprisonment for one to three years and a fine of 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 francs. Anyone who sells, exports or imports counterfeit artistic and literary works shall be liable to the same penalty. Article 347: Any person, who reproduces, represents, disseminates, translates or adapts by any means whatsoever a work of the mind in violation of intellectual property rights, as defined and governed by law, shall be punished by a fine of 500,000 to 5,000,000 francs. Article 348: The penalty shall be imprisonment for a period of one month to one year and a fine of 5,000,000 to 25,000,000 francs, if it is established that the offender usually engages in the acts referred to in articles 346 and 347. Article 349: Counterfeited works and the proceeds or shares of proceeds that have been confiscated shall be handed over to the owner of the intellectual property rights or his entitled successors to compensate them for the loss they have suffered. The remainder of their compensation, or the full compensation if there has been no confiscation of material, objects of counterfeit or proceeds, shall be settled through the ordinary channels. The judge may order the publication of the sentence. Section 7: Destruction or degradation of commodities, goods or materials Article 350:Any looting or damage of commodities or merchandise, items or movable property, committed in a group or gang and with violence shall be punishable by imprisonment for five to twenty years. If the looted or destroyed goods are basic commodities or essential to the economic life of the country, the penalty applicable to the instigators or provokers shall be twenty years imprisonment. Article 351: Any person who, by any means, intentionally damages foodstuffs, goods, materials or equipment of any kind used in manufacturing, shall be punished by imprisonment for a period of one month to two years and by a fine which may not exceed one quarter of the damages, nor be less than 360,000 francs.

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