(1) Copyright extends to literary, artistic and scientific works expressed in the following forms:

a) written (manuscript, typescript, score, etc.);

b) oral (public performance, etc.);

c) audio or video print (mechanical, magnetic, digital, optical, etc.);

d) image (drawing, sketch, painting, plan, photogravure, etc.);

e) three-dimensional (sculpture, model, model, construction, etc.);

f) in other forms.

(2) Objects of copyright are:

a) literary works (stories, essays, novels, poems, etc.);

b) computer programs which are protected in the same way as literary works;

c) scientific works;

d) dramatic and dramatico-musical works, scripts and drafts of scripts, libretti, film synopses;

e) musical works with or without text;

f) choreographic works and pantomimes;

g) audiovisual works;

h) works of painting, sculpture, graphics and other works of fine art;

i) works of architecture, town planning and horticultural art;

j) works of applied art;

k) photographic works and works obtained by a process analogous to photography;

l) maps, plans, sketches and three-dimensional works in the fields of geography, topography, architecture and other fields of science;

m) databases;

n) other works.

(3) Without prejudice to the rights of the author of the original work, copyright shall also protect derivative and integral works on which one or more works and/or any other pre-existing materials are based, namely:

a) translations, adaptations, annotations, musical arrangements and any other transformations of literary, artistic or scientific works, provided that they constitute the results of intellectual creation;

b) collections of literary, artistic or scientific works (encyclopaedias and anthologies, compilations of other material or data, whether or not protected, including databases), provided that, by reason of the selection and arrangement of their contents, they constitute the results of intellectual creation.

(4) Copyright also protects as such a component part or other element of the work (including the title or characters of the work) which is itself an intellectual creation.

(5) The works, as well as component parts or other elements of the works specified in para. (1) to (4) shall be protected if they are original in the sense that they are in themselves intellectual creations of authorship. No other criteria, such as quantitative, qualitative or aesthetic characteristics, shall apply to determine whether such works are eligible for protection.