Works of art shall be registered according to the regulations issued by The Minister of
Information & Culture.
Article (2)
Protection shall include in particular authors of the following:
- Written works.
- Works included in the arts of drawing and painting with lines and colors, engraving,
sculpture and architecture.
- Works conveyed verbally, such as lectures, speeches, preachments and similar works.
- Dramatic works and musical plays.
- Musical works whether accompanied with words or not.
- Photographic and cinematic works.
- Geographical maps and drawings.
- Three-dimensional works related to geography, topography or science.
- Eurythmics prepared materially for production.
- Works related to applied arts.
- Works especially prepared for or broadcasted by radio or television.
Protection in general shall include the authors of works of art whose method of
expression is writing, sound, drawing, painting or movement.
The work's title when distinguished by innovation shall be considered a trademark to
which the law of trademarks shall apply.
Article(3)
Without prejudice to the rights of the original author, whoever translates a work of art
into Arabic or any other language, transforms it from one type of literature, arts or
science into another, summarizes, amends, modifies, explains, comments on it, or indexes
a work of art, in any manner which renders it a novel in form, shall enjoy protection
under this law. However, the rights of a photographer shall not result in preventing others
from taking new photographs of the photographed object, even if these new photographs
are taken from the same place and in the same conditions of the first photograph.
Article (4)
Protection shall not include the following:
1- Collections which comprise various works such as verse, prose and music anthologies
and other collections, without affecting the copyrights of the author of each work.
2- Collections of work which have become public property.