Section 2 Copyright Act
Section 2 Copyright Act 2022 is about Works eligible for copyright. It is under Part I (Objectives, Scope and Subsistence of Copyright) of the Act.
(1) Subject to this Act, the following works shall be eligible for copyright —
(a) literary works ;
(b) musical works ;
(c) artistic works ;
(d) audiovisual works ;
(e) sound recordings ; and
(f ) broadcasts.
(2) Notwithstanding the provision of subsection (1), literary, musical or artistic work shall not be eligible for copyright unless —
(a) some effort has been expended on making the work, to give it an original character ; and
(b) the work has been fixed in any medium of expression known or later to be developed, from which it can be perceived, reproduced or otherwise communicated either directly or with the aid of any machine or device.
(3) Any work that meets the requirements set out in subsection (2) shall be eligible for copyright, notwithstanding the quality of the work or the purpose for which the work was created.
(4) A work shall not be ineligible for copyright by reason only that the making of the work or the doing of any act in relation to the work involved an infringement of copyright in some other works.
(5) The copyright in a compilation shall not confer any exclusive right in the pre-existing material or data.
(6) An artistic work shall not be eligible for copyright, if at the time the work is made, it is intended by the author to be used as an industrial design, as defined under the pattern designs.
