Laws Article 4 Whoever arabizes, translates, revises or transforms the work from one of the colours of literature, arts or science into another colour, or summarizes, modifies, converts, explains, comments on it, or indexes it in any form that appears it in a new form without prejudice to the copyright of the original work, shall enjoy protection. However, the rights of the photographic work shall not entail preventing others from taking new pictures of the photographed thing, even if these new pictures are taken from the same place and in the same circumstances in which the first picture was taken. Article 5 The performer shall enjoy protection and shall be considered a performer whoever implements or conveys to the public an artistic work created by someone else, whether this performance is by singing, playing, rhythm, recitation, photography, drawing, movements, steps or any other method, provided that there is no prejudice to the rights of the author of the original work. Article 6 The following shall enjoy protection as long as they are distinguished by the character of originality, arrangement, choice or any other personal effort that deserves protection: 1. Collections that organized as several anthologies of poetry, prose, music and other collections, provided that there is no prejudice to the rights of the author of each work. 2. Collections of works that have been devolved to the public domain. 3. Collections of official documents such as texts of laws and regulations, international agreements, judicial rulings and other official documents. Official Gazette of Iraqi Issue No. (1957) 3 Date: 21/01/1971