Copyright

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Intellectual Property (IP) refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images,

and designs used in commerce. IP is divided into two categories: Industrial property, which includes inventions (patents), trademarks,

industrial designs, and geographic indications of source; and Copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels,

poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, and architectural designs.

Rights related to copyright include those of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recordings,

and those of broadcasters in their radio and television programs. “

- World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO

Copyright - Copyright is the exclusive right given to the owner of a copyright for a specific period. Copyright protection in Malaysia is

governed by the Copyright Act 1987. There is no system of registration for copyright in Malaysia. A work that is eligible is protected

automatically upon fulfillment of the following conditions:-

sufficient effort has been expected to make the work original in character;
the work has been written down, recorded or reduced to a material form;
the author is qualified person or the work is made in Malaysia or the work is first published in Malaysia

- Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia, MyIPO