COPYRIGHT AND NEIGHBOURING RIGHTS ACT (AS AMENDED)
“Registrar” means—
(a) the Controller; or
(b) a registrar of copyright referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section
eighty-nine; or
(c) an examiner or other officer referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section
eighty-nine, in relation to any function that has been assigned to him in terms of
subsection (4) of that section;
“reproduce” means to make a copy of a work in any manner or form, and includes storing
the work permanently or temporarily in electronic form;
“reprographic copying” means a process⎯
(a) for making facsimile copies; or
(b) involving the use of an apparatus for making multiple copies;
and includes, in relation to a work held in electronic form, any reproducing by electronic
means, but does not include the making of an audio-visual work or a sound recording;
“satellite” means any device in extraterrestrial space capable of transmitting signals;
“sculpture” includes a cast or model made for purposes of sculpture;
“signal” means an electronically generated carrier capable of transmitting programmes;
“sound recording” means any fixation of sounds on a record, but does not include a soundtrack associated with an audio-visual work;
“sound-track associated with an audio-visual work” means any recording of sounds which is
incorporated in any print, negative, tape or other article on which the audio-visual work
or part of it, in so far as it consists of visual images, is recorded, or which is issued by
the author of the audio-visual work for use in conjunction with such an article;
“sufficient acknowledgement” means an acknowledgement identifying the work in question
by its title or other description, and identifying the author unless⎯
(a) the work is anonymous; or
(b) the author has previously agreed or required that no acknowledgement of his name
should be made; or
(c) it is not possible to ascertain the identity of the author by reasonable inquiry;
“Tribunal” means the Intellectual Property Tribunal established by section 3 of the
Intellectual Property Tribunal Act [Chapter 26:06];
“work” means any literary, musical, artistic or audio-visual work, sound recording,
broadcast, programme-carrying signal or published edition;
“work of joint authorship” means a work produced by the collaboration of two or more
authors in which the contribution of each author is not separable from the contribution
of the other author or authors, but does not include a collective work;
“writing” includes any form of notation or code, whether by hand or otherwise, and
regardless of the method by which, or medium in or on which, it is recorded.
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