What work is protected?

The works that are protected by copyright law are as follows:

– original literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works,

– sound recordings, films, broadcasts or cable programmes,

– the typographical arrangement of published editions, and

– original databases.

The protection provided by copyright does not extend to the ideas, principles, concepts or the methods which underline the work in hand.

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