COPYRIGHT AND NEIGHBOURING RIGHTS ACT (AS AMENDED)
(i) a copy held in electronic form; and
(ii) a copy made from a copy of the work;
“copyright” has the meaning given to it in section nine;
“designated country”, in relation to any provision of this Act, means a country that has been
designated for the purposes of that provision in regulations made in terms of section one
hundred and thirty-five;
“distribution”, in relation to a programme-carrying signal, means any operation by which
such a signal is transmitted to the public or any section of the public;
“dramatic work” includes a work of dance or mime if reduced to the material form in which
the work or entertainment is to be presented, but does not include an audio-visual work;
“drawing” includes any drawing of a technical nature and any diagram, map, chart or plan;
“economic right”, in relation to a work in which copyright subsists, means a right referred to
in section seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two or twenty-three,
as the case may be;
“educational institution” means a school, technical college, university college, university or
similar institution;
“electronic form” means a form usable only if actuated by electric, magnetic, electromagnetic, electro-chemical or electro-mechanical energy;
“exclusive licence” means—
(a) a licence referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section forty-nine; or
(b) a sub-licence conferring on the sub-licensee the same exclusive rights as the holder
of a licence referred to in paragraph (a);
and “exclusive licensee” shall be construed accordingly;
“fixation”, in relation to sounds, means the embodiment of the sounds or representations of
the sounds in such a way that they can be heard, reproduced or communicated through a
machine or device;
“fixed date”, in relation to any provision of this Act, means the date fixed in terms of
subsection (2) of section one as the date of commencement of that provision;
“graphic work” includes⎯
(a) a painting, drawing, diagram, map, chart or plan; and
(b) an engraving, etching, printed circuit, lithograph, woodcut or similar work;
“individual”, when used as a noun, means a natural person;
“information” includes words, signs, symbols, images and sounds;
“infringing copy”, in relation to a work, means a copy the making of which constituted an
infringement of copyright in the work or, in the case of an imported article, would have
constituted an infringement of that copyright if the article had been made in Zimbabwe:
Provided that, where a work has been reproduced for a purpose that is permitted
under this Act but the resultant copy is subsequently used or dealt with for a different
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