REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA

LAW ON COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS - full text (.pdf)

Article 4. Non-Protected Works

1. Copyright protection shall not be afforded to:
   a) expressions of traditional folklore and art;
   b) daily news or information on current facts and events;
   c) official documents: legal acts, treaties and the official translations thereof;
   d) official symbols and signs (flags, coats of arms, medals, coins);
   e) political speeches, speeches delivered in the court;
   f) results obtained by technical means without the intervention of human creative activity.
2. Copyright shall not cover scientific discoveries, ideas, principles, methods, procedures, viewpoints, systems, ceremonies, scientific theories, mathematical formulas, statistical diagrams, rules of games, even if they are expressed, described, disclosed, commented in works.

This work is in the public domain in the U.S. because it is an edict of a government, local or foreign. See § 313.6(C)(2) of the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, 3rd ed. 2014 (Compendium (Third)). Such documents include "legislative enactments, judicial decisions, administrative rulings, public ordinances, or similar types of official legal materials." These do not include works first published by the United Nations or any of its specialized agencies, or by the Organization of American States. See Compendium (Third) § 313.6(C)(2) and 17 U.S.C. § 104(b)(5).

A non-American governmental edict may still be copyrighted outside the U.S. Similarly, the above U.S. Copyright Office Practice does not prevent U.S. states or localities from holding copyright abroad, depending on foreign copyright laws and regulations.