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Article 1259. Objects of Copyright

5. Copyright shall not apply to ideas, concepts, principles, methods, processes, systems, means, solutions of technical, organizational and other problems, discoveries, facts, programming languages.

6. Shall not be objects of copyright:

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2) state symbols and signs (flags, emblems, orders, banknotes, and the like), as well as symbols and signs of municipal formations;
3) works of folk art (folklore), which don't have specific authors;
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