This Precedent is a suggested definition for copyright. However, care should be given to ensure conformity with Bahrain Law No. 22/2006 on the Protection of Copyright and Neighbouring Rights.

Copyright means the property right subsisting by the law of any applicable jurisdiction in any literary, dramatic, musical, artistic work, and in any sound recording, film or broadcast, or other work expressing the author's own intellectual creation [together with related rights such as moral rights and performer's rights].