Acquisition of copyright through expropriation

It is lawful to expropriate any work which has been published, edition of which is exhausted, and which the author and his heirs do not desire to reprint, when the same work has not yet fallen in the public domain. § Sole paragraph - Only the government may expropriate a writing preceded by a law which authorizes the expropriation, after paying compensation to the author, and in conformity in all the rest with the general principles of expropriation for public purpose.