Member of Berne Convention:
Yes.
Registration:
Possible for nationals as well as foreigners.
Duration:
Duration in general is the author's life plus 50 years starting from the beginning of the calendar year following the author's date of death.
Works Protected:
Books, pamphlets, essays and other written works; Computer programs and applications, databases and works analogous to them as defined by a Minister’s decision; Lectures, addresses, sermons and other works of similar nature; Dramatic, and musical works and dumb shows; Music compositions with or without words; Sound and audiovisual works; Architecture works, engineering plans and layouts; Works of drawing, painting, sculpture and lithography (fabric, metal, stones, wood) and engrave or similar works in the scope of fine arts; Photographic works and works analogous to photography; Works of applied and plastic art; Illustrations, geographical maps, sketches, three-dimensional works relative to geography, topography and architecture designs etc.
Limitations on Protection:
Mere ideas, procedures, methods of work, mathematical understandings, principles, and abstract facts; Official documents, whatever is their original language or the language translated to them, such as the texts of laws, regulations, decisions, international agreements, judgments, arbitrators’ awards and the decisions of the administrative committees having judicial competence; News, events and the current facts, which constitute merely media news; Works transferred to public property.
Penalties:
Penalties include payment of fines of up to 500,000 Dirhams (around 136,000 US Dollars) as well as legal prosecution resulting in not less than 3-months imprisonment terms.
