Section 6. Non-Protected Works

The following shall not be protected by copyright:

1. regulatory enactments and administrative rulings, other documents issued by the State and Local Governments and adjudications of courts (laws, court judgements, decisions and other official documents), as well as official translations of such texts and official consolidated versions;
2. State approved, as well as internationally recognised official symbols and signs (flags, Coats of Arms, anthems, and awards), the use of which is subject to specific regulatory enactments;
3. maps, the preparation and use of which are determined by regulatory enactments;
4. information provided in the press, radio or television broadcasts or other information media concerning news of the day and various facts and events;
5. ideas, methods, processes and mathematical concepts.

Shall not be objects of copyright:

• official documents of state government agencies and local government agencies of municipal formations, including laws, other legal texts, judicial decisions, other materials of legislative, administrative and judicial character, official documents of international organizations, as well as their official translations;
• state symbols and signs (flags, emblems, orders, any forms of money, and the like), as well as symbols and signs of municipal formations;
• works of folk art (folklore), which don't have specific authors;
• news reports on events and facts, which have a purely informational character (daily news reports, television programs, transportation schedules, and the like).