(3) A literary, musical or artistic work shall not be eligible for copyright unless—
| (a) | sufficient effort has been expended to make the work original in character; and | |
| (b) | the work has been written down, recorded or otherwise reduced to material form. |
(4) A work shall not be ineligible for copyright by reason only that the making of the work, or the doing of any act in relation to the work involves an infringement of copyright in some other work.
Derivative works. 8. (1) The following derivative works are protected as original works:
| (a) | translations, adaptations, arrangements and other transformations of literary, musical or artistic works; and | |
| (b) | collections of literary, musical or artistic works which, by reason of the selection and arrangement of their contents, constitute intellectual creation. |
(2) Protection of works referred to in subsection (1) shall be without prejudice to any protection of the existing works used.
Copyright in published editions of works. 9. (1) Copyright shall subsist, subject to the provisions of this Act, in every published edition of any one or more literary, artistic or musical work in the case of which either—
| (a) | the first publication of the edition took place in Malaysia, or in another country to which this section extends; or | |
| (b) | the publisher of the edition was a qualified person at the date of the first publication thereof: |
Provided that this subsection does not apply to an edition which reproduces the typographical arrangement of a previous edition of the same work or works.
