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(h)
photographic works;
(i)
works of applied art;
G)
computer programs; and
(k)
illustrations, maps, plans, sketches and three
dimensional works relative to geography,
topography, architecture or science.
(2) Works shall be protected, when they are fixed or
otherwise reduced to material form, irrespective of their mode
or fotm of expression or their content, quality or purpose.
5.(1)
The following shall also be protected as works-
Derivative
works
(a) translations, adaptations, arrangements and
other transformations or modifications of
works or traditional cultmal expressions or
expressions of folklore; and
(b) collections of works, collections of data
(databases), whether in machine readable or
other form, and collections of traditional
cultural expressions or expressions of
folklore, provided that such collections are
original by reason of the selection or
arrangement of their contents.
(2) The protection of a work referred to in
subsection (1) shall be without prejudice to the protection
of a pre-existing work or traditional cultural expression or
expression of folklore incorporated in or utilised for the
making of such work.
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 4 and 5,
6.
no protection shall extend under this Act to(a)
any idea, procedure, system, method of
operation, concept, principle, discovery or
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Subject
matters not
protected