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A private publisher obtains the City Planning Office's Official Zoning Policy Manual and posts the manual verbatim on its website. The publisher then publishes a Plain-English Digest that rephrases the zoning provisions in plain language with original examples illustrating compliance, followed by a separate article offering independent analysis on the policy goals. (a) Identify which parts of the publisher's product are not eligible for copyright protection under the Philippines' non-copyrightable-works rule and explain why. (b) For each part identified in (a), determine whether copyright protection attaches and justify. (c) If the publisher asserts exclusive rights over the paraphrased plain-language section and the commentary, is that assertion correct? Discuss the interaction between non-copyrightable government texts and derivative/original expressions.