Cap. 415 Art. 3Works eligible for copyright.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this article the following works shall be eligible for copyright:

(a) artistic works;

(b) audiovisual works;

(c) databases;

(d) literary works;

(e) musical works.

(2) A literary, musical, or artistic work shall not be eligible for copyright unless the work has an original character and it has been written down, recorded, fixed or otherwise reduced to material form.

Furthermore, copyright protection shall not extend to ideas, procedures, methods of operations or mathematical concepts as such.

(3) A work shall not be ineligible for copyright by reason only that the making of the work, or the doing of any act in relation to the work, involved an infringement of copyright in some other work.

(4) A database shall not be eligible for copyright unless by reason of the selection or arrangement of its contents, it constitutes the author’s intellectual creation. Moreover the copyright conferred to a database shall not extend to its contents and shall be without prejudice to any rights subsisting in such contents themselves.