SECTION:
(I)
2.2
SUBJECT MATTER OF COPYRIGHT: IN GENERAL
Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with this chapter, in original works of
authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later
developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise
communicated either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. Works of
authorship shall include literary, dramatic-musical and artistic works and, in
particular:
(a)
books, pamphlets, computer programs and other writings;
(b)
lectures, addresses, sermons and other works of the same nature;
(c)
dramatic and dramatic-musical works;
(d)
musical works (vocal or instrumental);
(e)
choreographic works and pantomimes;
(f)
audiovisual works;
(g)
works of drawing, painting, architecture, sculpture, engraving, lithography
and tapestry;
(h)
photographic works, including works expressed by processes analogous to
photography;
(i)
works of applied art, whether handicraft or produced on an industrial scale;
U)
illustrations, maps, plans, scotches and three-dimensional works relative to
geography, topography, architecture or science;
(k)
work inspired by expressions of folklore;
(I)
translations, adaptation, arrangements and other transformations of the
literary, dramatic-musical and artistic works and words inspired by folklore
(and derivative works)
(m)
compilations of literary or artistic works, such as encyclopedias and
anthologies and of mere data (data bases), whether in machine readable or
other form, provided that such compilations are original by reason of the
selection, coordination or arrangement of their contents.
(I)
Copyright protection of any work referred to in this subsection shall
subsist irrespective of its form of expression, its quality and the
purpose for which it was created.
(2)
In no case copyright for an original work of authorship extend to any
idea, procedure, process, system, method or operation, concept,
principle, discovery, or mere date regardless of the form in which it
is described, explained, illustrated or embodied in such work.
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