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LAW ON COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS - full text (.pdf)

Article 4. Non-Protected Works

1. Copyright protection shall not be afforded to:
   a) expressions of traditional folklore and art;
   b) daily news or information on current facts and events;
   c) official documents: legal acts, treaties and the official translations thereof;
   d) official symbols and signs (flags, coats of arms, medals, coins);;
   e) political speeches, speeches delivered in the court;
   f) results obtained by technical means without the intervention of human creative activity.
2. Copyright shall not cover scientific discoveries, ideas, principles, methods, procedures, viewpoints, systems, ceremonies, scientific theories, mathematical formulas, statistical diagrams, rules of games, even if they are expressed, described, disclosed, commented in works.