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Article 5. Works not Attributed to the Subject Matter of Copyright Copyright shall not apply to:

 1) ideas, procedures, processes, systems, methods of operation, concepts, principles, discoveries or mere data;

 2) legal acts, official documents texts of administrative, legal or regulative nature (decisions, rulings, regulations, norms, territorial planning and other official documents), as well as their official translations;

 3) official State symbols and insignia (flags, coat-of-arms, anthems, banknote designs, and other State symbols and insignia) the protection of which is regulated by other legal acts;

 4) officially registered drafts of legal acts;

 5) regular information reports on events;

 6) folklore works.

§ 5. Results of intellectual activities to which this Act does not apply

• 1) ideas, images, notions, theories, processes, systems, methods, concepts, principles, discoveries, inventions, and other results of intellectual activities which are described, explained or expressed in any other manner in a work;
• 2) works of folklore;
• 3) legislation and administrative documents (acts, decrees, regulations, statutes, instructions, directives) and official translations thereof;
• 4) court decisions and official translations thereof;
• 5) official symbols of the state and insignia of organisations (flags, coats of arms, orders, medals, badges, etc.);
• 6) news of the day;
• 7) facts and data;
• 8) ideas and principles which underlie any element of a computer program, including those which underlie its user interfaces.

Section 6. Non-Protected Works

The following shall not be protected by copyright:

1. regulatory enactments and administrative rulings, other documents issued by the State and Local Governments and adjudications of courts (laws, court judgements, decisions and other official documents), as well as official translations of such texts and official consolidated versions;
2. State approved, as well as internationally recognised official symbols and signs (flags, Coats of Arms, anthems, and awards), the use of which is subject to specific regulatory enactments;
3. maps, the preparation and use of which are determined by regulatory enactments;
4. information provided in the press, radio or television broadcasts or other information media concerning news of the day and various facts and events;
5. ideas, methods, processes and mathematical concepts.