Traditional Knowledge Laws: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Subject Matter of Protection

Article 8 - Unprotected creations

(1) Copyright protection shall not extend to:
      e) folk literary and artistic creations.

Article 7 - Collections

(1) The collections of works or other material (encyclopedias, miscellanea, anthologies, collections of folk literary and artistic creations, collections of documents, collections of court decisions, databases and the like) which, by reason of the selection, layout or the way of displaying their contents, constitute independent individual intellectual creations shall be considered works.
(2) The inclusion of original works in a collection must not infringe the rights of authors of such works. By inclusion of other original material in a collection, such material shall not become a protected work.