LAW 101: Copyrighted Works:

The following works are protected from the time of their creation:

A. Literary & Artistic Works - original creations which include in particular:

a) Books, pamphlets, articles & other writings;

b) Periodicals & newspapers;

c) Lectures, sermons, addresses, dissertations prepared for oral delivery;

d) Letters;

e) Dramatic or dramatico-musical compositions; choreographic works or entertainment in dumb shows;

f) Musical compositions;

g) Drawing, painting, architecture, sculpture, engraving, lithography or other works of art; models/designs for works of art;

h) Ornamental designs/models for articles of manufacture, & other works of applied art;

i) Illustrations, maps, plans, sketches, charts & 3-dimensional works relative to geography, topography, architecture or science;

j) Drawings/plastic works of a scientific or technical character;

k) Photographic works including works produced by a process analogous to photography; lantern slides;

l) Audiovisual works & cinematographic works & works produced by a process analogous to cinematography or any process for making audio-visual recordings;

m) Pictorial illustrations & advertisements;

n) Computer programs; and

o) Other literary, scholarly, scientific & artistic works.

B. Derivative Works -

a) Dramatizations, translations, adaptations, abridgments, arrangements, & other alterations of literary or artistic works; and

b) Collections of literary, scholarly or artistic works, & compilations of data & other materials which are original by reason of the selection or coordination or arrangement of their contents.

C. Published Edition of Work - In addition to the right to publish granted by the author, his heirs/ assigns, the publisher shall have a copyright consisting of the right of reproduction of the typographical arrangement of the published edition of the work.

Source:
Sec. 172 & 173, Republic Act No. 8293, (Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines).