“Architectural work” means the design of a building as embodied in any tangible medium of expression,
including a building, architectural plans, or drawings. The work includes the overall form as well as the
arrangement and composition of spaces and elements in the design, but does not include individual
standard features.
“ARIPO” means the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization.
“Artistic work” means any of the following or works similar thereto irrespective of artistic quality works
equivalent to:
a) paintings, drawings, etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, engravings or prints.
b) maps, plans and diagrams.
c) works of sculpture.
d) photographs not comprised in audio-visual works.
e) works of architecture in the form of buildings or models; and
f) works of artistic craftsmanship, pictorial woven tissues and articles of applied handicraft and
industrial art.
“Applicant” means the author or a literary, scientific or artistic work, his heirs and assigns, and the
proprietor thereof.
“Author” means to the person who has created a literary, scientific or artistic work and includes writers,
playwrights, composers, designers, painters, architects, sculptors, engravers, lithographers, illustrators,
photographers, translators, arrangers, adaptors, and all other creators of literary, scientific or artistic
works.
“Audiovisual works” means works that consist of a series of related images which are intrinsically
intended to be shown by the use of machines or devices such as projectors, viewers, or electronic
equipment, together with accompanying sounds, if any, regardless of the nature of the material, such as
films or tapes in which works are embodied.
“Banjul Protocol” means the Protocol on Marks within the Framework of ARIPO.
“Basic application” means an application for registration of a mark, filed with the Director General and
which is used as a basis for the filing of an international application under the Madrid Protocol.
“Basic registration” means a mark registered by the Director General and which is used as the basis for the
filing of an international application under the Madrid Protocol.
“Berne Convention” means to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
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