For commissioned works: the person who commissioned the work owns

the work but the copyright thereto remains with the creator, unless
there is a written agreement to the contrary. - See more at:
http://www.ipophil.gov.ph/services/copyright/ownership-andrights#sthash.PX3cifvy.dpuf
The Philippine law on intellectual property,Republic Act 8293, explicitly says that a computer
program can only be protected by copyright and not by patent.
Article 10(1) of the TRIPs Agreement says: Computer programs, whether in source or object
code, shall be protected as literary works under the [Berne Convention].
Original work refers to every production in the literary, scientific and artistic
domain. Among the literary and artistic works enumerated in the IP Code includes
books and other writings, musical works, films, paintings and other works, and
computer
programs.
See
more
at:
http://www.ipophil.gov.ph/services/copyright#sthash.8Uv9ntud.dpuf

Is a computer program protected under the IP Code?

Yes. A computer program is considered work under the IP Code and is
protected
from the moment of its creation. [Section 172.1(n)] The Intellectual
Property Code of the Philippines defines a computer program as a
set of instructions expressed in
words, codes, schemes or in any other form, which is capable when
incorporated in a medium that the computer can read, of causing the
computer to perform or achieve a particular task or result. (Sec 171.4.
IP Code of the Philippines).
TheIPCodeprovides,Incaseofaworkcommissionedbyapersonotherthananemployeroftheauthor
and who pays for it and the work is made in pursuance of the commission, the person who so
commissionedtheworkshallhaveownershipofthework,butthecopyrighttheretoshallremainwiththe
creator,unlessthereisawrittenstipulationtothecontrary.[Section178.4IPCode]

In computing, source code is any collection of computer instructions (possibly

with comments) written using some human-readable computer language, usually
as text.