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"The term “authors’ rights” is used in European Union law to avoid ambiguity, in preference to the more usual translation of droit d’auteur etc. as “copyright”. The equivalent term in British and Irish law is “copyright (subsisting) in a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work” ( the term in Maltese and Cypriot law is similar, except that dramatic works are treated as a subset of literary works.")

Definition of literary work: Intellectual work expressed in written words, numbers, or symbols (but not audio-visually) in any medium. (BusinessDictionary)

The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, usually known as the Berne Convention, is an international agreement governing copyright, which was first accepted in Berne, Switzerland, in 1886. (Wikipedia)

A nine-year-old boy has just won his first literary prize for a composition on the subject of "Manners" that he submitted in a school essay contest [...] (The New Yorker)