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§ 5. Results of intellectual activities to which this Act does not apply

• 1) ideas, images, notions, theories, processes, systems, methods, concepts, principles, discoveries, inventions, and other results of intellectual activities which are described, explained or expressed in any other manner in a work;
• 2) works of folklore;
• 3) legislation and administrative documents (acts, decrees, regulations, statutes, instructions, directives) and official translations thereof;
• 4) court decisions and official translations thereof;
• 5) official symbols of the state and insignia of organisations (flags, coats of arms, orders, medals, badges, etc.);
• 6) news of the day;
• 7) facts and data;
• 8) ideas and principles which underlie any element of a computer program, including those which underlie its user interfaces.