Abstract
copyright code until recently. Historically, Kuwait's legal system has applied the Islamic Law {Sharia), which does not provide authors of intellectual subjects protection for their literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic works. Sharia law does not recognize intellectual property rights, and there were no rules developed to such an end in the past.2 In early 1960, Kuwait adopted the positive civil legal system as its law, and modernized the court system accordingly. Copyrights, among other norms of the positive legal system, such as patents and trademarks, were introduced either by their own codes, or by including them in general codes, or by applying the general principles of the modern legal system to them. For example, patents have their own code (Code no. 14/1962), and trademarks rules were included within the commercial law code of 1960.
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