No. 26
Copyright
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PART XV__MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Extension of the application of this Act
Application of this Act to satellite broadcast
Regulations
Repeal and savings
Transitional provisions
An Act to make provision for copyright in literary, dramatic,
musical and artistic works, audiovisual works, sound
recordings and broadcasts; the rights of performers;
technological measures and rights management information;
the establishment of the Copyright Society of Malawi and the
Creativity Promotion Fund; and matters connected therewith
or incidental thereto.
ENACTED by the Parliament of Malawi as follows__
PART I__PRELIMINARY
1. This Act may be cited as the Copyright Act, 2016, and shall
come into operation on such date as the Minister shall appoint, by
notice published in the Gazette.
2.__(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires__
“adaptation”__
(a) in relation to a dramatic work, means conversion of the
work from nondramatic form to its dramatic form, whether the
work is in its original language or not ;
(b) in relation to a literary work, whether in a nondramatic
form or in a dramatic form, means__
(i) a translation of the work, including in relation to a
computer programme, a version of the programme in which
it is converted into or out of a computer language or code or
into a different computer language or code;
(ii) a version of the work in which the story or action is
conveyed solely or principally by means of pictures;
(iii) in relation to a computer programme or a compilation
of data, a rearrangement or altered version of the original
programme or compilation; or
(c) in relation to a musical work, an arrangement or
transcription of the work;
“artistic work”, irrespective of artistic quality, includes__
(a) etchings paintings, drawings, sketches, lither crafts,
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