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.

Article 5. Subject Matter Of Copyright

Copyright does not apply to ideas, methods, processes, systems, means, concepts, principles, discoveries and facts, even if they are expressed, described, explained, illustrated or embodied in a work

Article 8. Works To Which Copyright Does Not Apply

1. Copyright does not apply to the following works:

   a) official documents (laws, decisions of courts, other texts of administrative and normative character), as well as their official translations;

   b) official symbols of state (flag, emblem, anthem, award, monetary symbols, other official signs and symbols of state);

   c) information of events and facts.

2. When using the works mentioned in subparagraph "b" of this Article under the other persons name, it is possible to protect the right of author's name.