(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.
[Ins. Act A994:s.3]
(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.
[Ins. Act A952:s.3]
(6) Copyright in any design which is capable of being registered under any written law relating to industrial design, but which has not been so registered, shall cease as soon as any article to which the design has been applied has been reproduced more than fifty times by an industrial process by the owner of the copyright or, with his license, by any other person.
[Ins. Act A952:s.3]
(7) For the purpose of this section, "any written law relating to industrial design" includes:
(a) the United Kingdom Designs (Protection) Act 1949[Act 214];
(b) the United Kingdom Designs (Protection) Ordinance of Sabah [Sabah Cap. 152]; and
(c) the Designs (United Kingdom) Ordinance of Sarawak [Swk. Cap 59].