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Copyright Act, 2004.

(2) The protection of a work referred to in subsection (1 ) 

is without prejudice to any protection of a pre-existing 

expression of folklore incorporated in or in 

or utilized for the making of the work. 

Ideas,
concepts
excluded from
copyright

7. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 5 and 6, no
protection shall extend under this Act to ­
(a) 	any idea, procedure, system. method of
operation, concept, principle, discovery or
mere data. even if expressed, described,
explained, illustrated or embodied in a
work; or
(b) any official text of a legislative, administrative
or legal nature or any of its official
translation.

Expression of
folklore
protected

8. ( 1 ) Expression of folklore is protected by copyright
under this Act against ­
(a) 	 reproduction;
(b) 	 communication to the public by
performance, broadcasting. distribution
bv cable or other means; and
(c) 	 adaptation. translation
transformation,

and

other

when the expression is made either for commercial
purposes or outside a traditional or customary context.
(2) The protection conferred in subsection (1) does not
include the right to control ­

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