Copyright Ordinance, 1962 — section 10

10. Works in which copyright subsists..—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section and to the other provisions of this Ordinance, copyright shall subsist throughout Pakistan in the following classes of works, that is to say,

(a)original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works;

(b)cinematographic works; and

(c)records.

(2)Copyright shall not subsist in any work specified in sub-section (1), other than a work to which the provisions of section 53 or section 54 apply, unless,

(i)in the case of a published work, the work is first published in Pakistan, or where the work is first published outside Pakistan, the author is at the date of such publication, or in a case where the author was dead at that date, was at the time of his death, a citizen of Pakistan or domiciled in Pakistan;

(ii)in the case of an unpublished work other than an architectural work of art, the author is at the date of the making of the work a citizen of Pakistan or domiciled in Pakistan; and

(iii)in the case of an architectural work of art, the work is located in Pakistan. 1 [(2A) * * * * * * *]

(3)Copyright shall not subsist,

(a)in any cinematographic work, if a substantial part of the work is an infringement of the copyright in any other work;

(b)in any record made in respect of a literary, dramatic or musical work, if, in making the record, copyright in such work has been infringed.

(4)The copyright or the lack of copyright in a cinematographic work or a record shall not affect the separate copyright in any work in respect of which or a substantial part of which, the work, or, as the case may be, the record is made.

(5)In the case of an architectural work of art, copyright shall subsist only in the artistic character and design and shall not extend to the processes or methods of construction.