États-Unis d'Amérique

Émirats arabes unis

Droit d'auteur et droits connexes

3. Please explain how the copyright law of the United Arab Emirates protects computer programs as literary works and complications of data as required by Article 10 of the TRIPS Agreement.

Computer programs are protected by the 1992 Copyright Law No. 40. Article 2 of this law mentions computer programs under the scope of protection. The draft amendment will introduce under the above-mentioned scope computer programs and their applications as well as compilations of data.