FinlandIntellectual Property
Copyright protection exists for anyone who has created a literary or artistic original work, fictive or descriptive, such as a written or oral literary work, a musical work, a motion picture, a computer program, a composition, a photograph or an other pictorial work or any other work considered to be original. The requirement for getting a copyright is therefore a creation of a unique, independent and original work, not the type of the work created.
A work is therefore, as a general rule, eligible for protection if it is unique. Accordingly one should always ask the question whether a specific work is unique or not. Different types of works are considered unique according to different standards, for example a written work is quite easily considered unique. On the other hand for example textile works and works of industrial art require a very high level of originality to be considered unique and therefore eligible for protection.
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