id would like to see him enforce this quote '"Even if it is for private use, they must have permission from the Egyptian government,"

JOKE

It's not quite without precedent. In the UK, the Crown holds copyright to the Book of Common Prayer and the Authorised King James Version of the bible in perpetuity, outside the scope of the normal intellectual property laws. You can't print or import either of those two without letters patent - but that only applies within the UK.

Whatever Egypt decides, it can at best only apply within the country - and possibly not even there, depending on what sort of agreements it has with the various international IP trade bodies (which passeth all understanding). It's quite possible that not only would Egypt be unable to prosecute its law abroad, but attempts to impose restrictions at home would lead to the threat of it losing general IP protection abroad.

This is meaty stuff, touching on general principles of sovereignity and the international community...

Well, I suppose the money is needed.

Patents might be difficult, compared to copyrighting the designs. With copyrights, they would garner the support of the claimants to rights-in-perpetuity such as Disney: patents are expected to expire.

None of this will have any legal force in any country other than Egypt except those with which Egypt has agreements for such matters. In addition, in the U.S., as an example, domestic ex post facto laws are unconstitutional, and one assumes the same would apply to foreign laws or regulations, never mind the fact that on face, foreign laws have no bearing. Once suspects that such laws have so many loopholes that can be circumvented, almost a Clintonesque, "what does is a copy really mean."