COPYRIGHT AND NEIGHBOURING RIGHTS ACT (AS AMENDED)
“owner”, in relation to any copyright, means the person in whom the copyright is vested and,
subject to section five, includes an assignee in relation to the rights held by him under
the assignment;
“performance”, subject to section sixty-eight, includes⎯
(a) any mode of visual or acoustic presentation of a work, including any such
presentation by⎯
(i) the operation of a radiocommunication service; or
(ii) the exhibition of an audio-visual work; or
(iii) the use of a loudspeaker or record;
and
(b) in relation to a lecture, speech, address or sermon, delivery thereof;
“photograph” means a recording of light or other radiation on any medium on which an
image is produced or from which an image may by any means be produced, and which is
not part of an audio-visual work;
“programme” includes any item of information included in a programme that is broadcast or
transmitted by a cable programme service or embodied in a programme-carrying signal;
“programme-carrying signal” means a signal which embodies a programme and which
passes through a satellite;
“public computer network” means a group of interlinked computers to which the public or a
section of the public have access, whether on payment of a fee or otherwise, and
includes the computer network commonly known as the Internet;
“public lending” means the lending of a copy of a work for a limited period to a member of
the public by a public library or archive or other such non-profit-making institution;
“publication” has the meaning assigned to it in section three;
“published edition” means a published edition of the whole or any part of one or more
literary or musical works;
“radiocommunication service” means the transmission, emission or reception of information
of any description whatsoever wholly or partly by means of electromagnetic waves of
frequencies between ten kilohertz and three million megahertz propagated in space
without artificial guide;
“record” means any disc, tape, perforated roll or other device in or on which information is
or can be embodied so as to be capable, with or without the aid of some other
instrument, of being automatically reproduced;
“Register” means⎯
(a) the Copyright Register kept in terms of subsection (1) of section eighty-eight; or
(b) the appropriate register or the appropriate part of the Copyright Register kept in
accordance with subsection (2) of section eighty-eight;
as the case may be
“registered” means registered in the Register;
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