• Simple blank forms or formats to be filled out with any type of information, as well as their instructions; • Unauthorized reproductions or imitations of the coat of arms, flags, or emblems of any country, state, municipality, or equivalent political division, nor the names, acronyms, symbols, or emblems of international governmental, non-governmental, or any other officially recognized organization, as well as their verbal designations; • Legislative, regulatory, administrative, or judicial texts, as well as their official translations. If published, they must adhere to the official text and do not confer exclusive editing rights; • However, concordances, interpretations, comparative studies, annotations, commentaries, and other similar works that entail the creation of an original work by their author will be subject to protection; • The informative content of news, but also its form of expression; and • Commonly used information such as proverbs, sayings, legends, facts, calendars, and metric scales. Article 162 of the Law, referring to the Public Copyright Registry, establishes that the purpose of said registry is to guarantee the legal security of authors, the holders of related rights, the holders of the respective property rights, and their successors in title, as well as to provide adequate publicity to works, acts, and documents through their registration. It is clarified that literary and artistic works and related rights will be protected even if they are not registered. Article 163 details the creations that may be registered in the Public Registry of Copyright: I. Literary or artistic works submitted by their authors; II. Compendiums, arrangements, translations, adaptations, or other versions of literary or artistic works, even if authorization granted by the owner of the proprietary right to disclose them is not proven. This registration does not authorize the publication or use of the registered work in any way, unless the corresponding authorization is proven. This fact must be stated both in the registration and in the certifications issued; III. The deeds and bylaws of the various collective management societies and any amendments or modifications thereto; IV. The pacts or agreements entered into by Mexican collective management societies with foreign societies; 721 GASTRONOMIC LAW IN MEXICO: PROTECTION OF TRADITION AND CULINARY CULTURE
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