COPYRIGHT AND NEIGHBOURING RIGHTS ACT (AS AMENDED) (f) any other literary, musical or artistic work, the life of the author and fifty years from the end of the year in which the author dies. (2) The copyright conferred on the State or an international organisation by section thirteen shall subsist— (a) in the case of an audio-visual work, a photograph, a computer program, a sound recording, a broadcast, a programme-carrying signal or a published edition, for the period specified in respect of such work in subsection (1); (b) in the case of any other literary, musical or artistic work, for fifty years from the end of the year in which the work was first published. (3) The copyright in an anonymous or pseudonymous literary work, other than a work referred to in subsection (2), shall subsist for fifty years from the end of the year in which the work is made available to the public with the consent of the owner of the copyright or from the end of the year in which it is reasonable to presume that the author died, whichever period is the shorter: Provided that, in the event of the identity of the author becoming known before the expiry of that period, the term of the copyright shall be calculated in accordance with subsection (1). (4) In the case of a work of joint authorship, the references in paragraph (f) of subsection (1) and subsection (3) to the death of an author shall be taken to refer to the author who dies last, whether or not he is a qualified person in terms of subsection (1) of section eleven. 16 Protection of works that have been adapted or embodied in other works (1) Subject to any agreement to the contrary, the copyright in an adaptation of a work shall be without prejudice to any copyright in the original work. (2) The copyright in any work shall be without prejudice to the protection under Part VIII of any work of folklore embodied or utilised in the work. 17 Acts restricted by copyright in literary and musical works Subject to this Act, copyright in a literary or musical work shall vest in the owner the exclusive right to do or to authorise the doing of any of the following acts in Zimbabwe⎯ (a) reproducing the work; (b) publishing the work; (c) importing the work into Zimbabwe or exporting it from Zimbabwe, otherwise than for the personal and private use of the person importing or exporting it; (d) performing the work in public; (e) broadcasting the work; (f) causing the work to be transmitted in a cable programme service, unless the service transmits a lawful broadcast, including the work, and is operated by the original broadcaster; (g) except in the case of a computer program, making an adaptation of the work; (h) in the case of a computer program— (i) publishing an adaptation of the program; Act 11/2001 - 20 Chapter 26:01

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