COPYRIGHT AND NEIGHBOURING RIGHTS ACT (AS AMENDED)
(c) sells an illicit recording of a performance or lets it for hire or offers or exposes it for
sale or hire;
knowing or having reasonable grounds for believing that it is an illicit recording, shall be guilty of
an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level ten or to imprisonment for a period not
exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
(2) Any person who causes an illicit recording to be performed in public, knowing or
having reasonable grounds for believing that it is an illicit recording, shall be guilty of an offence
and liable to a fine not exceeding level ten or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two
years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
(3) Any person who causes an illicit recording to be broadcast or transmitted in a cable
programme service, knowing or having reasonable grounds for believing that it is an illicit
recording, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level ten or to
imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
(4) Any person who falsely represents that he is authorised to give consent for the
purposes of this Part in relation to a performance, not having reasonable grounds for believing
that he is so authorised, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level ten or
to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such
imprisonment.
79 Rights under Part VII additional to copyright and moral rights
The rights conferred on performers and holders of recording rights by this Part shall be
independent of and additional to—
(a) any copyright subsisting in, or right conferred by Part VI relating to—
(i) any work performed in any performance; or
(ii) any audio-visual work or other record of any performance; or
(iii) any broadcast or cable programme including any performance;
or
(b) any other right or obligation arising in respect of a performance otherwise than under
this Part.
PART VIII
WORKS OF FOLKLORE
80 Interpretation in Part VIII
In this Part⎯
“appropriate local authority” means a local authority to which rights in relation to a work of
folklore have been reserved in terms of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section eightyone;
“community” means a community of persons that has inhabited Zimbabwe continuously
since before the year 1890 and whose members share the same language or dialect or the
same cultural values, traditions or customs;
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