published either. In addition, the report does not state the reasons for lacking a law on copyright, nor does it delineate the efforts made to protect copyrights as part of the intellectual property right. The report does not indicate how effective the programmes carried out by the Ministry of Culture (MoC) are and the extent to which they have achieved set goals in light of inadequate budgeted allocations to the MoC (just 0.003 percent of the overall public budget). Also, the report does not state the amount of financial support provided by the MoC to community-based cultural institutions in Palestine. 17