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be held in perpetuity in ethnic memory and considered valid as ethnic
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intellectual property.
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SECTION 6. Under the guidance of the Commission and National Museum
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(NM), or any other pertinent national cultural agency, the Local Government
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Units (LGU) with the assistance of the National Commission for Indigenous
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Peoples (NCIP) shall organize inventories of cultural properties of the different
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ethno-linguistic groups of the Philippines that are distinctive, characteristic of or
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derived from their particular traditional culture, to the exclusion of those of
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others and shall; submit these to the Commission thru the National Museum to
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establish communal ()wnership, and to be registered under the group's name for
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protecti~n within existing copyright law.
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Further that these registries of the tangible and intangible culturafproperties
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thus accomplished shall be incorporated in the Philippines Registry of Cultural
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Property (PRECUP) as established by Republic Act 10066 and administered to by
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the Commission.
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, SECTION 7. While recognizing that traditions change through time, the rights of
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the ethno-linguistic groups to their intellectual property changing in continuum
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shall retain original rights to these properties:
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SECTION
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object would result in'a derivative work or craft, which is one that is primarily a
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new work but incorporates some previously published material. A derivative
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work must be different enough from the original to be regarded as a "new work" ,
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or must contain a substantial amount of new material. Making minor changes or
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additions of little substance to a pre-existing work will not qualify the work as a
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new version for copyright purposes. The new material must be original and
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copyrightable in itself.
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SECTION 9. However, the rights of an ethno-linguistic group to a traditional
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item will lapse into public domain in 50 years, if after such period, it is no longer
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in production or used in cultural context within the society.
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SECTION 10. Pursuant to the above, the Commission will create an office within
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its
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have forms of tangible and intangible cultural heritage in making the above-
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mentioned registry;. and to undertake fhe safeguarding of national cultural
11. The infusion of personal or individual variations on a traditional
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str~cture to coordinate all efforts of government a~d private agencies that