1° works expressed by writing (books, pamphlets and other writings) including computer
programs;
2° Conferences, speeches, lectures, addresses, sermons and other oral works;
3° musical works with or without accompanying words;
4° dramatic, dramatico-musical works;
5° choreographic works and pantomimes;
6° audiovisual works;
7° works of drawing, painting, sculpture, engraving, lithography, tapestry and other works of
fine art;
8° works of architecture;
9° photographic works; including works made by means similar to photographic process;
10° works of applied art like as handicraft works or works produced by industrial process.
Thus, protection of industrial designs is granted by the provisions of this Law relating to
industrial designs;
11° illustrations, maps, plans, sketches and three-dimensional works relating to geography,
topography, architecture or science;
12° works deriving from Rwanda national folklore.
Article 196: Protection of derivative works and collections of works.
The following shall also be protected as works and collections of works:
1° translations, adaptations, arrangements and other transformations or modifications of
works and the works of expression of folklore;
2° collections of works, works of expression of folklore or of simple facts or mere data like
encyclopedia, anthologies, collections of data, whether in machine readable or other
form, provided that such collections are original intellectual creations by reason of the
selection or arrangement of their contents;
The protection of any derivative work shall be without prejudice to any protection of a preexisting work or expression of folklore incorporated in or utilized for the making of such a
work.
Article 197: Protection requirements of a work
The protection provided by this Law to any work that is original intellectual creation shall not
be submitted to any kind of legal formalities. However, opportunity is available to authors of
works for which this Law shall apply to register their works at the empowered authority.