What is Protected

Philippines
Section 172 of the IP Code lists the works covered by copyright protection from the moment of their creation, namely:
- Books, pamphlets, articles and other writings
- Periodicals and newspapers
- Lectures, sermons, addresses, dissertations prepared for oral delivery, whether or not reduced in writing or other material form
- Letters
- Dramatic or dramatic-musical compositions; choreographic works or entertainment in dumb shows>
- Musical compositions, with or without words
- Works of drawing, painting, architecture, sculpture, engraving, lithography or other work of art; models or designs for works of art
- Original ornamental designs or models for articles of manufacture, whether or not registrable as an industrial design, and other works of applied art
- Illustrations, maps, plans, sketches, charts and three-dimensional works relative to geography, topography, architecture or science
- Drawings or plastic works of a scientific or technical character
- Photographic works including works produced by a process analogous to photography; lantern slides
- Audio-visual works and cinematographic works and works produced by a process analogous to cinematography or any process for making audio-visual recordings
- Pictorial illustrations and advertisements
- Computer programs
- Other literary, scholarly, scientific and artistic works.
United States
A work is protected when it has been presented in some "tangible medium of expression" (Section 102, Copyright Act) and includes:
- literary works
- musical works, including any accompanying words
- dramatic works, including any accompanying music
- pantomimes and choreographic works
- pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works
- motion pictures and other audio-visual works
- sound recordings
- architectural works