According to the Ecuadorian Intellectual Property Law, the following documents are in the public domain and shall not benefit from the legal protection accorded to copyright:
(a) the ideas contained in works; procedures, methods of operation mathematical concepts as such; systems or the ideological or technical content of scientific works or the industrial or commercial exploitation thereof;
(b) legal and regulatory provisions, judicial decisions, and instruments, agreements, deliberations and rulings of public bodies, and also the official translations thereof.
