Cap. 415 чл. 6Copyrightworksof Government and international bodies.

(1) Copyright shall be conferred by this article on every work which is eligible for copyright and which is made by or under the direction or control of the Government of Malta and also such governments of other States, international bodies or other inter-governmental organisations as may be prescribed by the Minister responsible for the Industrial Property Office.

(2) Copyright conferred by this article on databases or on a literary, musical or artistic work shall subsist until the end of the expiration of seventy years from the end of the year in which it was first published.

(3) Copyright conferred by this article on an audiovisual work shall have the same duration as is provided for by article 4 in relation to the same type of work.

(4) Article 4(5) shall apply in like manner to works eligible for copyright to which this article applies which, having been unpublished, are lawfully published or lawfully communicated to the public for the first time after copyright protection has expired.

(5) Articles 4 and 5 shall not be deemed to confer copyright on works to which this article applies.