BASIC INFORMATION
A work of art, artwork, art piece, piece of art or art object is an aesthetic physical item or artistic creation.
Apart from "work of art", which may be used of any work regarded as art in its widest sense including works from literature and music.
MOST POPULAR OBJECTS:
1. An example of fine art, such as a painting or sculpture
2. An object that has been designed specifically for its aesthetic appeal, such as a piece of jewelry
3. An object that has been designed for aesthetic appeal as well as functional purpose, as in interior design and much folk art
4. An object created for principally or entirely functional, religious or other non-aesthetic reasons which has come to be appreciated as art (often later, or by cultural outsiders)
5. A non-ephemeral photograph, film or visual computer program, such as a video game or computer animation
6. A work of installation art or conceptual art.
OBJECTIVES OF LEGAL PROTECTION:
1. Recognition of authorship throughout the world.
2. Prohibition of unfair competition around the world (in all member countries of the Berne Convention).
3. Protection of commercial using of technology, process, methodology.
4. The possibility of capitalization and monetization.
5. Legalization of the use of work of science by the author.
Registration period
of the computer program: depends on rules of Copyright Office
Validity of the copyright certificate:
during the life of author and 50 years after his death.
No need for prolongation.
As an author (creator, developer) could be only private individual (physical person).
Owner (rightsholder): private individual (physical person), legal entity or their combinations
In the case of violations - for example when a violator is using a copyright to sell counterfeit goods or blatantly violating copyright law - courts may issue penalties.
In certain circumstances copyright infringement can amount to a criminal offence as well.
Scope of protection: collection of computer instructions, possibly with comments, written using a human-readable programming language, usually as ordinary text. The source code is often transformed by an assembler or compiler into binary machine code understood by the computer.