TITLE II mere fact of the author's concept being realized, even incompletely. Protected Works, Derivative Works, Non-Protected Works and Works of National Folklore Article 10. For the purposes of this Law, the work shall mean both the work in its original form and in a form derived from the original. CHAPTER J Article 11. The title of a work shall enjoy the same protection as the work itself in so far as it is original in character. Even if the work is no longer protected under Articles 28 and 61 to 67, the title may not be used to distinguish a work of the same kind if such use is liable to create confusion. Protected Works Article 6. Authors of original literary, arusuc and scien tific works shall be entitled to protection of their works in accordance with the intellectual and moral rights and with the economic rights laid down by this Law. Article 7. Literary, artistic and scientific works shall comprise: books, pamphlets and other writings; lectures, addresses, sermons, pleadings and other works of the same nature; works created for the stage or for broadcasting (sound or visual), including both dramatic and dramatico-musical and choreographic and mimed works, the acting form of which is fixed in writing or otherwise; musical works with or without words, whether in written form or not; works of drawing, painting, engraving and lithography; tapestries and objects created by artistic professions and the applied arts, including both drawings and models as well as the work itself; architectural works, including both plans and models as well as the construction itself; sculptures, bas-reliefs and mosaics of all kinds; photographic works of an artistic or documentary nature, to which are assimilated, for the purposes of this Law, works expressed by a process analogous to photography; cinematographic works, to which are assimilated works expressed by a process analogous to cinematography; maps, illustrations, plans, sketches and threedimensional works relative to geography, topography, architecture and science. Article 8. Works shall be protected irrespective of their quality, their purpose, their mode or their form of expression, without being subject to any formality. Article 12. The following shall also be protected as original works: translations, adaptations, arrangements of music and other transformations of a literary, artistic or scientific work; collections of literary, artistic or scientific works, such as encyclopedias and anthologies which, by reason of the selection and arrangement of their contents, constitute intellectual creations; works derived from Congolese folklore. Article 13. The protection enjoyed by the works referred to in Article 12 shall not prejudice any protection afforded to the pre-existing works that have been used. Article 14. Notwithstanding Articles 6 and 7 above, laws, decisions of courts or of administrative bodies and official translations thereof, news of the day published, broadcast or communicated to the public shall not fall within the scope of this Law. CHAPTER 3 Works of National Folklore Article 15. Folklore shall belong originally to the national heritage. For the purposes of this Law, folklore shall mean all literary and artistic productions created on the national territory by authors presumed to be Congolese nationals or by Congolese ethnic communities, passed from generation to generation and constituting one of the basic clements of the national traditional cultural heritage. Article 76. Works of national folklore shall be protected without limitation in time. Derivative Works, Non-Protected Worl{s Article 17. The adaptation of folklore or the use of clements borrowed from folklore shall be declared to the body referred to in Article 68. Article 9. A work shall be deemed to ha ve been created, irrespective of any public disclosure, by the Article j 8. The public performance, or reproduction by any means whatsoever, of national folk- CHAPTER 2

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