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UNITED
NATIONS
Economic and Social
Council
Distr.
GENERAL
E/C.12/GC/17
12 January 2006
Original: ENGLISH
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL
AND CULTURAL RIGHTS
Thirty-fifth session
Geneva, 7-25 November 2005
GENERAL COMMENT No. 17 (2005)
The right of everyone to benefit from the protection of the moral and material
interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which
he or she is the author (article 15, paragraph 1 (c), of the Covenant)
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