NO. However, Kuwait has been a member of the WTO since January 01, 1995. Accordingly, the provisions of the Berne Agreement are incorporated by reference into the TRIPS Agreement of the WTO PROTECTION. In March 1986, Kuwait joined the Arab Convention for the Protection of Copyright, which was ratified by the conference of ministers of cultural affairs in Baghdad in November 1981. Accordingly, a copyright need not be granted or obtained in Kuwait through official registration. Once an idea has been reduced to tangible form in any member state of the Convention, the copyright holder, regardless of nationality, is entitled to enforce his or her exclusive rights, provided that reciprocity was applied between his or her country and the member state.
If more than one person have jointly participated in a written or composed classified work to an extent where no share of any of them could be separated from the other shares, then all of them shall be considered equal joint holders of that classified work, unless otherwise is agreed upon in writing.
