Intellectual-property rights
Intellectual property means everything produced by human thought, including inventions, artistic creations, and other products of the human mind.
Law No. 82 of 2002Concerning the Issuance of the Intellectual Property Rights Protection Law(As amended on September 5, 2020), This law protects the rights of authors to their literary and artistic works, and in particular, the following works:
- Books, pamphlets, articles, publications, and other written works
- Computer programs
- Databases, whether computer-readable or otherwise
- Lectures, speeches, sermons, and any other oral works, if recorded
- Dramatic works, musical plays, and pantomime
- Musical works, with or without lyrics
- Audiovisual works
- Architectural works
- Works of drawing, painting, sculpture, lithography, and printing on textiles, and any similar works in the field of fine arts
- Photographic works and similar works
- Works of applied and plastic art
- Illustrations, geographical maps, sketches, and three-dimensional works related to geography, topography, or architectural design
- Derivative works, without prejudice to the protection afforded to the original works from which they are derived. Protection includes the job title if it is original
Exclusive rights of the author
- Reduce the work
- Performance
- Display Derivative works
- Display
- Distribute the work
Has copyright protection
- Software
- Books/journals
- Artistic works/manuscripts
- Architecture plans
- Musical files and records
Doesn't have protection
- Facts
- Ideas
- Titles (should be trademark)
- Invitations/Methods of operations (should be patent)