(1) For the purposes of this Act, ʻcomputer programsʼ means programs of any form, including drafts and their preparatory design material.
(2) The protection granted applies to the expression, in any form, of a computer program. Ideas and principles which underlie any element of a computer program, including the ideas and principles which underlie its interfaces, are not protected.
(3) Computer programs are protected if they represent individual works in the sense that they are the result of the author’s own intellectual creation. No other criteria, especially qualitative or aesthetic criteria, are to be applied when determining its eligibility for protection.
(4) The provisions applicable to literary works apply to computer programs, unless otherwise provided in this Division.
(5) Sections 32 to 32g, 36 to 36d, 40a and 41 do not apply to computer programs.