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(2) Tangible copies of a work which have been sold or otherwise
assigned by, or with the consent of, the author may, regardless of
whether the transfer of the copy occurred in Malawi or elsewhere,
be distributed to the public:
Provided that the author shall retain__
(a) the right of commercial rental of the work, except in the
case of objects for practical use and works or architecture in the
form of a building;
(b) the right of commercial rental in the case of computer
programmes, except where the programme itself is not the
essential object of the rental or lending; and
(c) the right of lending of machinereadable copies of a
computer program audiovisual work embodied in sound
recording, database or musical work in form of noation;
(3) Tangible copies of a work which have been sold or otherwise
assigned by, or with the consent of the author may be displayed to
the public regardless where the transfer of the copy took place.
30.__(1) An author of any work eligible for copyright under this
Act shall have the exclusive right to__
(a) claim authorship of his work and in particular, to demand
that his name or pseudonym be mentioned in the manner required
by proper usage when any of the acts referred to in section 29 (1)
is done in relation to such work;
(b) object to, and to seek relief in connection with, any
alteration, distortion, mutilation or other modification of the work
where__
(i) such act would be or is prejudicial to his honour or
reputation; or
(ii) the work is discredited thereby.
(2) Whenever a work is made available to the public in a
prejudicial manner as stated in subsection (1) (b) (i), the author shall
have a right to demand that he be not mentioned as the author of the
work, or that it be stated that the alteration does not derive from him.
(3) The right of the author stated in subsection (2) shall__
(a) apply regardless of the author having consented to the use;
and
Moral rights