(1) An author, co-author or joint author of any of the following works is entitled to the copyright and protection afforded to that work under this Act

(a) literary work,

(b) artistic work,

(c) musical work,

(d) sound recording,

(e) audio-visual work,

(f) choreographic work,

(g) derivative work, and

(h) computer software or programmes.

(2) Despite subsection (1), a work is not eligible for copyright unless

(a) it is original in character,

(b) it has been fixed in any definite medium of expression now known or later to be developed with the result that the work can either directly or with the aid of any machine or device be perceived, reproduced or otherwise communicated, and

(c) it is

(i) created by a citizen or a person who is ordinarily resident in the Republic,

(ii) first published in the Republic and in the case of a work first published outside the Republic is subsequently published in the Republic within thirty days of its publication outside the Republic, or

(iii) a work in respect of which the Republic has an obligation under an international treaty to grant protection.

(3) The eligibility of a work for copyright is not affected by its artistic quality, the purpose of the author in creating it or by the manner or form of its expression.

(4) For the purposes of this section a work is original if it is the product of the independent effort of the author.