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"Minister" means the Prime Minister;
"performance' means any acoustic representation of a work and any visual
representation of any dramatic action in a work, including such a represent
ation made by means of any mechanical instrument;
"photograph" includes photo-lithograph and any work produced by any process
analogous to photography;
"plate" includes any stereotype or other plate, stone, block, mould, matrix,
transfer, or negative used or intended to be used for printing or reproducing
copies of any work, and any matrix or other appliances by which records,
perforated rolls or other contrivances for the acoustic representation of the
work are or are intended to' be made;
"work of sculpture" includes casts and models.
(2) For the purposes of this Act (other than those relating to infringements of copy
right), a work shall not be deemed to be published or performed in public, and a lecture
shall not be deemed to be delivered in public; if published, performed in public, or delivered
in public, without the consent or acquiescence of the author, his executors, administrators
or assigns.
(3) For the purpose of this Act, a work shall be deemed to be first published within
the parts of the British Commonwealth to which the copyright Act, 1911, of the United
Kingdom extends, notwithstanding that it has been published simultaneously in some other
place, unless the publication in such parts of the British Commonwealth as aforesaid is
colourable only and is not intended to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the public,
and a work shall be deemed to be published simultaneously in two places if the time between
the publication in one such place and the publication in the other place does not exceed
fourteen days, or such longer period as may, for the time being, be fixed by Order in Council
or notice under this Act.
(4) Where, in the case of an unpublished work, the making of a work has extended
'over a considerable period, the conditions .of this Act conferring copyright shall be deemed
to have been complied with, if the author was, during any substantial part of that period, a
British subject or a resident within the parts of the British Commonwealth to which tile
Copyright Act, 1911, of the United Kingdom, extends.
(5) For the purposes of the provisions of this Act as to residence, an author of a work
shall be deemed to be a resident in the parts of the British Commonwealth to which that Act
extends if he is domiciled within any such part.
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Rights.
3.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, copyright shall subsist throughout Swazi
land for the term hereinafter mentioned in every original literary, dramatic, musical and
artistic work, if -
(a) - in the case of a published \i\70rK, the work was first published within a part
of the British Commonwealth to which the Copyright Act, 1911 of the
United Kingdom (1 and 2 Gee. 5 ch. 46) applies; and
(b) in the case of an unpublished work, the author was at the date of the making
of the \,I\10rk: a British su bject or resident within any such part of the British
Commonwealth as aforesaid;