Article 3: Object of Legal Protection
On legal protection of computer programmes and databases (1060-XII-son) · Date: 06.05.1994 · In force
Computer programmes and databases shall be classified by this Law as objects of copyright.
Copyright shall apply to any computer programmes and databases, which are the result of the creative activity of the author (co-authors), whether released or not, expressed in objective form, irrespective of their purpose and value. The author's copyright on computer programmes and databases is presumed until the contrary is proved.
The legal protection granted by this Law shall extend to:
extends to all types of computer programs (including operating systems and software complexes), which may be expressed in any programming language and in any form, including source code and object code, as well as to databases representing the result of creative work on selection and organisation of data:
does not extend to ideas and principles underlying a computer program or database or any element thereof, including ideas and principles of interface and algorithm organisation, as well as programming languages.
