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LAW ON COPYRIGHT AND NEIGHBORING RIGHTS - full text (.pdf)

Article 6. Works which are not considered as an object of copyright
The following are not an object of Copyright:

• works of folklore;
• communications on daily news or on current events that are press information;
• official documents (laws, decisions, decrees, etc.) as well as their official translations;
• state emblems and signs (flags, coats of arms (armorial bearings), medals (decorations), monetary signs, etc.);
• results obtained by technical means without the intervention of human creative activity.

Copyright shall not extend to ideas, principles, methods, ceremonies (rituals), procedures, views (viewpoints), systems, proposed solutions, and discoveries of objectively existing phenomena.

Article 7. Works Which are not Objects of Copyright
The following are not subjects of copyright:

• official documents (laws, court decisions, other texts of legislative, administrative or judicial character) and official translations thereof;
• State emblems and official signs (flags, armorial bearings, decorations, monetary signs and other State symbols and official signs);
• works of folklore, which have no signs of Article 5 of this Law;
• communications concerning events and facts that have informational character.

Article 5. Subject Matter Of Copyright

Copyright does not apply to ideas, methods, processes, systems, means, concepts, principles, discoveries and facts, even if they are expressed, described, explained, illustrated or embodies in a work

Article 8. Works To Which Copyright Does Not Apply

1. Copyright does not apply to the following works:

   a) official documents (laws, decisions of courts, other texts of administrative and normative character), as well as their official translations;

   b) official symbols of state (flag, emblem, anthem, award, monetary symbols, other official signs and symbols of state);

   c) information of events and facts.

2. When using the works mentioned in subparagraph "b" of this Article under the other persons name, it is possible to protect the right of author's name.

Full text of the Law: in Russian, in English.

Comment – According to interstate and international compacts Georgia is legal successor of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, therefore this license tag is also applicable to official symbols and formal documents of the Georgian SSR.

Warning – This license tag cannot be applied to proposed official symbols and drafts of formal documents, which can be copyrighted.