COPYRIGHT AND NEIGHBOURING RIGHTS ACT (AS AMENDED) (2) A work, other than a broadcast or programme-carrying signal, shall not be eligible for copyright unless it has been reduced to writing, recorded or reduced to material form. (3) A broadcast or a programme-carrying signal shall not be eligible for copyright until⎯ (a) in the case of a broadcast, it has been broadcast; (b) in the case of a programme-carrying signal, it has been transmitted by a satellite. (4) A work shall not be ineligible for copyright solely because the making of the work, or the doing of any act in relation to the work, involved an infringement of copyright in some other work. (5) The following matters and things shall not be eligible for copyright— (a) ideas, procedures, systems, methods of operation, concepts, principles, discoveries, facts or figures, even if they are explained, illustrated or embodied in a work; (b) news of the day that are mere items of press information; (c) speeches of a political nature; (d) speeches delivered in the course of legal proceedings: Provided that the author of any speeches referred to in paragraph (c) or (d) shall have the exclusive right to make a collection of them. (6) The following public documents shall not be eligible for copyright— (a) official texts of enactments; (b) official texts of Bills prepared for presentation in Parliament; (c) official records of judicial proceedings and decisions; (d) notices, advertisements and other material published in the Gazette; (e) applications, specifications and other matters published in the Patent and Trade Marks Journal referred to in section 95 of the Patents Act [Chapter 26:03]; (f) official texts of international conventions, treaties and agreements to which Zimbabwe is a party; (g) entries in, and documents that form part of, any register which is kept in terms of an enactment and is open to public inspection; (h) such other documents of a public nature as may be prescribed: Provided that this subsection shall not be taken to limit the provisions of any other law which may prohibit or restrict the reproducing, publishing or altering of any such public document. 11 Copyright by virtue of author’s nationality, domicile or residence (1) A work that is eligible in terms of section ten shall qualify for copyright protection if, at the material time as defined in subsection (2), the work’s author or, in the case of a work of joint authorship, any one of its authors, was— (a) a citizen of Zimbabwe or a designated country; or (b) domiciled or ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe or a designated country; or (c) in the case of a body corporate, incorporated under the law of Zimbabwe or a designated country. Act 11/2001 - 17 Chapter 26:01