MALDIVES LAW AND PRACTICE Contributed by: Shaaheen Hameed, Hassan Maaz Shareef, Aminath Amathulla, Nazahath Ahmed, Isha Ali Raoof, Aifa Shareef, Noorul Hudha Ahmed and Mohamed Azmee, Premier Chambers LLP
(a) performance was made within the terri - tory of the Maldives; (b) performance has been included in an au - dio recording protected under the Copy - rights Act; or (c) performance was not a fixation in an audio recording but is still a performance included in a broadcast protected under the Copyrights Act. Audio recordings The Copyrights Act protects audio recordings: • produced by citizens; • first produced at a fixed location in the Mal - dives: and • first published in the Maldives. Broadcasts The Copyrights Act protects: • broadcasts of organisations that have estab - lished regional offices in the Maldives; and • broadcasts from transmitters installed in the Maldives. In addition, the Copyrights Act will afford the same protection afforded to works, artists, pro - ducers of audio recordings and broadcasting organisations under international conventions and agreements which the Maldives is a party to. Protection The following types of works are protected under the Copyrights Act. • Original literary works, original musical works and original artistic works, particularly: (a) books, pamphlets, articles and other writ - ings; (b) academic, literary and artistic speeches and addresses;
(c) drama, musicals, stage performances, choreography, steps and other presenta - tions and other works for stage produc - tions; (d) poems, songs, tunes and other musical products; (e) feature films, documentary films, drama, video songs and other video-visual pres - entations and works; (f) works of art and architecture; (i) illustrations, charts, plans, sketches and 3D works related to geography, topogra - phy, architecture or science; and (j) computer programmes (without consider - ing how the programme was written or the format of the programme). • Audio recordings. • Broadcasts made via satellite, internet and cable. • Derivative works such as translations, adap - (g) photographic works; (h) works of applied arts; tations, arrangements and other transfor - mations or modifications of works, as well as collections of works, collections of data (databases) in whatever form and collections of expressions of folklore that are original by selection or arrangement. Under the Copyrights Act, works are protected by the sole fact of their creation, irrespective of their mode or form of expression, or their con - tent, quality and purpose. Protection under the Copyrights Act will only extend to originally cre - ated products or works. The following are not protected. • Any idea, procedure, system, method of oper - ation, concept, principle, discovery or mere data, even if expressed, described, explained, illustrated or embodied in a work.
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