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The person who creates a literary, artistic or scientific work (to be referred to as work) shall be regarded as the author of that work. Where two or more persons jointly create a work, they shall be regarded as co-authors.

A person who creates a derivative work (i.e. translates the work into another language, adapts, edits, annotates or selects the work) from a work of another person shall be the author of that derivate work.Subject matters of related rights

Copyrights are the rights of organizations, individuals to works created or owned by them.

Objects of copyright include literary, artistic and scientific works; objects of copyright -related rights include performances, sound recordings, video recordings; broadcastingprograms; satellite signals carrying encrypted program.

   1.       Literary, artistic and scientific works protected including:

     a)       Literary and scientific works, textbooks, teaching materials, and other works expressed in forms of letters or other writing characters;

     b)       Lectures, presentations and other speeches;

     c)       Journalistic works;

     d)       Musical works;

     e)       Dramatic works;

     f)         Cinematographic works and works created by similar methods (hereinafter referred to as cinematographic works);

     g)       Fine art works and applied art works;

     h)       Photographic works;

     i)         Architectural works;

     j)         Graphics, sketches, maps, drawings relevant to topography and scientific works;

     k)       Folk artistic and literary works.

     l)         Computer programs and compilations of data  

  2. Derivative works shall only be protected according to paragraph 1 of this Article if theydo not infringe the copyrights in respect of the works used to make derivative works.  

  3.  Protected works stipulated in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article must be created directlyby author’s intelligence without reproducing others’ works. 

  4. The Government sets out guidelines in details forms of protected works as stipulated in paragraph 1 of this Article. 

Subject matter excluded from copyrights protection

   1. Information just for the purposes of communication;

   2. Legal normative documents, administrative documents, other documents in the judicialsector and the official translation thereof.

   3. Processes, systems, method of operation, definitions, principles and statistics.