The most important legal news in local newspapers
We in Ben Arafa Law Group Consulting & Legal Legitimacy L.L.C likes to provide you of the most important legal news in the local newspapers for this week, which related to your business and commercial, labor and procedural activities, and accordingly we provide you with the most important news as follows:
(1) The Cabinet approves property expropriation law for the public interests and temporary possession
The Saudi cabinet approves the law for property expropriation for the public interests and the temporary possession for using the property and achieving the public interests for a defined term without property transfer, while the owners shall be compensated fairly with a compensation which isn’t less than similar property, in addition to 20% of the charges, and a compensation for the resulted damages.
The law also defines the public interests as everything that achieves public benefits for development and progress and making the community the priority, or everything that avoids public harms, such as crisis, epidemics, etc.
(2) No protection for products which are originated entirely by the artificial intelligence
Saudi Intellectual property authority issues new guidelines where it points out that the legal protection according to the author rights law is limited to the products which resulted from original human participation. It affirms that the products which are resulted entirely from artificial intelligence without a human interfering shall not be covered with protection. It points out that the outputs shall be protected in a case that their production includes guiding creativity or artistic composition from man that reflects his/ her ethical selection. That direction agrees with the international practices and aims at reinforcing legal transparency and supporting creativity environment in the kingdom.
(3) Legal Information
In a case that a shareholder’s share is limited to his job, and the company articles of association don’t define his share in the profits or loss, his share in them shall be similar to the share of the least capital shareholder. In a case that the shareholder provides- in addition to his job- cash or material share, he shall have a portion of profits or losses according to his share in the job and another share for his cash or material share.
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