VI.
"Literary works" are works, other than audiovisual works, expressed in words,
numbers, or other verbal or numerical symbols or indicia regardless of the nature
of the material objects, such as books, periodicals, manuscripts, sound
recordings, film, tapes, disks, or cards, in which they are embodied.
vii. A "Pseudonymous" is a work on the copies or sound recordings of which the
author is identified under a fictitious name.
(d)
A "compilation" is a work formed by the collection and assembling of pre-existing
materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the
resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship.
I.
A "work of the Republic of Liberia Government" is a work prepared by an
officer or employee of the Liberian government as part of that person's official
duties.
11.
A "work made for hire" is
(I) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment;
or
(2) a work specially ordered or commissioned f or use as a contribution to a
collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a
translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an international
text, as a test, as answer, material for a test, or as an atlas, it the parties
expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be
considered a work made for hire.
(e)
"Copies" are material objects, other than sound recordings, in which a work is fixed
by any method now known or later developed, and which the work can be perceived,
reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine
or device. The term "copies" includes the material object, other than a sound
recording, in which the work is first fixed.
(f)
"Copyright Owner", with respect to anyone of the exclusive rights comprised in a
copyright, refers to the owner of that particular right.
(g)
A "device", "machine", or "process" is one now known or later developed.
(h)
To "display" a work means to show a copy of it, either directly or by means of a film,
slide, television image or any other device or process or, in the case of a motion
picture or other audiovisual work, to shoe individual images non-sequentially.
(i)
"Motion pictures" are audiovisual works consisting of a series of related images
which, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion, together with
accompanying sounds, if any.
(j)
To "perform" a work means to recite, render, play, dance or act it, either directly or
by means of device or process or, in case of a motion picture or other audiovisual
work, to show its images in any sequence or to make the sounds accompanying it
audible.
(k)
"Sound recordings" are material objects in which sounds, other than those
accompanying a motion picture or other audiovisual work, are fixed by any method
now known or later developed, and from which the sounds can be perceived,
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