• Subject matter of copyright
1. literary works in the scientific or literary domain
whether verbal or written;
2. musical works;
3. graphic works and works of applied art;
4. works of architecture and construction design;
5. choreographic works, works of contortionists and pantomime;
6. dramatic works;
7. cinematographer works and all works expressed by a process analogous
to cinematography;
8. photographic works and all works expressed by a process analogous
to photography;
9. plans, sketches, design, and models relative to the scientific and
technical domain;
10. computer programmes;
11. [Encyclopedia, dictionary, other database compilation that compose
an intellectual creation by its content and purpose. However, the copyright
in the original works shall not be affected.
12. derived works such as adaptation, translation, arrangements of musical
and other artistic works based on the pre-existing works.] ? ?
13. any other works expressing the intellectual creative activity of
the author.
The followings are not protected by copyright;
1) legislation and other legal documents;
2) court decision, official documents;
3) speech made at court and political meetings;
4) translation of documents referred in (1), (2) and (3) of this paragraph;
5) news
6) idea, procedures, method of operation, or mathematical concepts.
Copyright of works created, amended, performed, compiled based on
folklore or cinematographic and phonographic works or similarly created
derived works shall be protected by Copyright law.
• Term of Copyright
a) The term of exclusive rights in copyrighted works
shall be the life of the author and fifty years after his or her death.
b) The term of any copyrighted work where the author
is legal person shall last for a period of 75 years from 1 January of
the year following the year of the making of the work.
c) The term of copyright of photographic works applied
art shall be for 25 years from the making of such work.
• Marking
The owner of the exclusive rights in copyrighted works may use the
symbol being the Latin letter C in a circle.
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