Definition of Copyright | Requirements for Deposit of Copyright | Term

Literary and artistic works are original intellectual creations in the literary and artistic domain protected from the moment of their creation and shall include in particular:

1. Books, pamphlets, articles and other writings;
   
2. Periodicals and newspapers;
   
3. Lectures, sermons, addresses, dissertations prepared for oral delivery, whether or not reduced in writing or other material form;
   
4. Letters;
   
5. Dramatic or dramatico-musical compositions; choreographic works or entertainment in dumb shows;
   
6. Musical compositions, with or without words;
   
7. Works of drawing, painting, architecture, sculpture, engraving, lithography or other works of art; models or designs for works of art;
   
8. Original ornamental designs or models for articles of manufacture, whether or not registrable as an industrial design, and other works of applied art;
   
9. Illustrations, maps, plans., sketches, charts and three-dimensionsl works relative to geography, topography, architecture or science;
   
10. Drawings or plastic works of a scientific or technical character;
    
11. Photographic works including works produced by a process analogous to photography; lantern slides;
    
12. Audiovisual works and cinematographic works and works produced by a process analogous to cinematography or any process for making audio-visual recordings;
    
13. Pictorial illustrations and advertisements;
    
14. Computer programs; and
    
15. Other literary, scholarly, scientific and artistic works.