Section 1
SECTION 1. This Decree shall be known as the "Decree on Intellectual Property."
PD 49 (Decree on Intellectual Property) CHAPTER I. — Preliminary Provisions
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Section 2
SEC. 2. The rights granted by This Decree shall, from the moment of creation, subsist with respect to any of the following classes of works: Books, including composite and cyclopedic works, manuscripts, directories, and gazetteers; Periodicals, including pamphlets and newspapers; Lectures, sermons, addresses, dissertations prepared for oral delivery; Letters; Dramatic or dramatico-musical compositions; choreographic works and entertainments in dumb shows, the acting form of which is fixed in writing or otherwise; Musical compositions, with or without words; Works of drawing, painting, architecture, sculpture, engraving, lithography, and other works of art; models or designs for works of art; Reproductions of a work of art; Original ornamental designs or models for articles of manufacture, whether or not patentable, and other works of applied art; Maps, plans, sketches, and charts; Drawings or plastic works of a scientific or technical character; Photographic works and works produced by a process analogous to photography; lantern slides; Cinematographic works and works produced by a process analogous to cinematography or any process for making audio-visual recordings; Computer programs; Prints, pictorial illustrations, advertising copies, labels, tags, and box wraps; Dramatizations, translations, adaptations, abridgements, arrangements and other alterations of literary, musical or artistic works or of works of the Philippine Government as herein defined, which shall be protected as provided in Section 8 of this Decree; Collections of literary, scholarly, or artistic works or of works referred to in Section 9 of this Decree which by reason of the selection and arrangement of their contents constitute intellectual creations, the same to be protected as such in accordance with Section 8 of this Decree; Other literary, scholarly, scientific and artistic works.
Section 3
SEC. 3. The rights granted by this Decree shall not be lost except in the manner specifically provided herein. Neither shall they be subject to levy and attachment while in the possession of the creator or his heirs.
Section 4
SEC. 4. Nothing in this Decree shall be deemed to alter or in any manner impair any other right or remedy of the persons protected by its provisions.
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