Intellectual Property Act, No. 36 of 2003 9 (2) The protection of any work referred to in subsection (1) shall be without prejudice to any protection of a preexisting work incorporated in, or utilized for, the making of such a work. 8. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 6 and 7, no protection shall be extended under this Part — Works not protected. (a) to any idea, procedure, system, method of operation, concept, principle, discovery or mere data, even if expressed, described, explained, illustrated or embodied in a work ; (b) to any official text of a legislative, administrative or legal nature, as well as any official translation thereof ; (c) to news of the day published, broadcast, or publicly communicated by any other means. 9. (1) Subject to the provisions of sections 11 to 13 the owner of copyright of a work shall have the exclusive right to carry out or to authorize the following acts in relation to the work — (a) reproduction of the work ; (b) translation of the work ; (c) adaptation, arrangement or other transformation of the work ; (d) the public distribution of the original and each copy of the work by sale, rental, export or otherwise ; (e) rental of the original or a copy of an audiovisual work, a work embodied in a sound recording, a computer program, a data base or a musical work in the form of notation, irrespective of the ownership of the original or copy concerned ; Economic rights.