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Copyright protects all original intellectual literary, artistic or scientific creations, expressed in any form, and especially written or oral texts, musical compositions, with or without text, theatrical plays, with or without music, choreographies and pantomimes, audiovisual works, fine art works, which include drawings, paintings and sculptures, engravings and lithographs, architectural works, photographs, applied arts works, illustrations, maps, three-dimensional works regarding geography, topography, architecture or science, translations, adaptations, customizations and other alterations of folklore works or expressions, as well as collections of folklore works or expressions or other simple events and facts, such as encyclopaedias and anthologies, if the selection or arrangement of their content is original.
Furthermore, copyright law protects databases which, due to the selection or arrangement of their contents, constitute intellectual creations. Such protection does not extend to the contents of databases and is without prejudice to any rights subsisting in those contents themselves.
Computer programs and the preparatory material for their engineering are also protected. The protection is provided in any form of expression of a computer program.
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