Copyright 21 Works eligible for copyright 7. (1) Subject to this section, the following works shall be eligible for copyright: (a) literary works; (b) musical works; (c) artistic works; (d) films; (e) sound recordings; and (f) broadcasts. (2) Works shall be protected irrespective of their quality and the purpose for which they were created. (2a) Copyright protection shall not extend to any idea, procedure, method of operation or mathematical concept as such. (3) A literary, musical or artistic work shall not be eligible for copyright unless— (a) sufficient effort has been expended to make the work original in character; and (b) the work has been written down, recorded or otherwise reduced to material form. (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 involves an infringement of copyright in some other work. (5) Copyright shall not subsist under this Act in any design which is registered under any written law relating to industrial design. (6) (Deleted by Act A1420).

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