COPYRIGHT AND NEIGHBOURING RIGHTS ACT (AS AMENDED)
(a) describe as accurately as possible the work of folklore concerned and the rights that are
proposed to be reserved; and
(b) specify whether the Minister intends to make the reservation in favour of the President
or an appropriate local authority and, in the latter event, identify the local authority;
and
(c) invite persons who wish to object to the proposed reservation to submit their objections
to the Minister, in writing, within a reasonable period after publication of the notice.
(4) Before the Minister makes a reservation he shall pay due regard to any objections that
may be submitted in response to a notice published in terms of paragraph (b) of subsection (2).
(5)
A notice embodying a reservation under subsection (1) shall⎯
(a) describe as accurately as possible the work of folklore in respect of which the
reservation is made; and
(b) specify the rights that are reserved in relation to the work of folklore concerned; and
(c) specify whether the reservation is made in favour of the President or an appropriate
local authority and, in the latter event, identify the local authority; and
(d) specify the date from which the rights are reserved, which date shall not be earlier than
one month after the date of publication of the notice.
82 Effect of reservation
(1)
Subject to this Part—
(a) no person who is not a public institution or a citizen of Zimbabwe shall do anything or
cause anything to be done in Zimbabwe in relation to a reserved work of folklore, where
the right to do that thing has been reserved to the President;
(b) no person who is not a public institution or a member of the community concerned shall
do anything or cause anything to be done in Zimbabwe in relation to a reserved work of
folklore, where the right to do that thing has been reserved to an appropriate local
authority;
except in accordance with a licence under section eighty-five.
(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence, unless he
satisfies the court that he did not know and had no reason to believe that the work of folklore
concerned was a reserved work of folklore.
(3) A person who is guilty of an offence in terms of subsection (2) shall be liable to a fine
not exceeding level six or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to both such
fine and such imprisonment.
83 Restriction on importation or exportation of copies of reserved works of
folklore
Section sixty shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the importation or exportation of copies of
any reserved work of folklore made in contravention of this Part as if—
(a) the Minister were the owner of the copyright in the reserved work of folklore, where
rights in it have been reserved to the President; or
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