Which works are protected by copyright?

Copyright applies to all original works which have been reduced to a material form and this may include any means of recording. These works included literary works; musical works; artistic works; which included photographs, works of architecture, works of artistic craftsmanship; cinematographic films (and video recordings); sound recordings; broadcasts; programme-carrying signals; published editions, i.e. the first print, by whatever process, of a particular typographical arrangement of a literary or musical work; and computer programs.The terms "artistic or literary" are not to be interpreted in the sense of having artistic or literary merit - but that they are original creations reduced or recorded in a specific form.