Ethiopia is not a signatory to any of the international agreements on Copyrights including the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the WIPO Copyright Treaty, WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty or the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). Ethiopia is also not a member of the WTO.  Some of the current exceprtion provided under articles 5, 6 & 9 of the copyright proclamation state that works that are not origional, fixed (expressed/writted down); ideas or procedures; legal writtings and the like are not protected. 