(f) works of applied art, whether handicraft or produced on an
industrial scale;
"association" means an association of persons whose works are protected
under this Act;
"audio-visual work" means a fixation in any physical medium of images
synchronized with or without sound from which a moving picture may by any
means be reproduced and includes cinematograph films, videotapes and
videograms but does not include a broadcast;
"author" means the person who creates a work, and:
(a) in the case of a cinematograph film or sound recording, means a
person by whom arrangements for the making of the film or
recording were undertaken; and
(b) in the case of a broadcast transmitted from within a country,
includes the person by whom the arrangements for the making of
the transmission within that country were undertaken;
"Board" means the Board for the management of the Society as referred to
in section 46;
"broadcast" means the transmission of programmes or materials for
reception by the general public over a distance by means of radio, television,
electromagnetic emissions, light beams, wire cable or other means;
"broadcasting organization" means the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation,
established by the Malawi Broadcasting Act and any other broadcaster
whether licensed under that Act or any other written law;
"building" includes any structure;
"choreographic work" means a dance composition or design by a dance
composer of dance patterns which may be used as blue print for unified
dance presentations on stage or in recordings of any kind regardless of how
long they may last;
"commissioned work" means a work created in pursuance of a contract
between the author and an individual or a legal entity commissioning a
specified work from the author against an agreed author's fee;
"communication by cable", in relation to a work, means transmission over
wires or other paths provided by a material substance of the work,
production or performance of the work;
"communication to the public" means making a work accessible to the public;
"computer software" means a set of instructions, whether expressed in
words or in schematic or other form, which is capable, when incorporated in
a machine-readable medium, of causing an electronic or other device having
information processing capabilities to indicate, perform or achieve a
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