public by wired or wireless transmission, including transmission by satellite;
“broadcasting organisation” means the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation or such other
organisation as may be prescribed;
“Chairperson” means the Chairperson of the Board;
“circumvent” in relation to technological protection measures means to avoid, bypass, remove,
deactivate, or impair these measures, including descrambling a scrambled work or object of
related right or decrypting an encrypted work or object of related right;
“communication to the public” means the transmission by wire or by wireless means of a work, a
performance, a phonogram Or a broadcast in such a way that it can be perceived by persons
outside the normal circle of a family and its closest social acquaintances at a place or places so
distant from the place where the transmission originates that, without the transmission, the
work, performance, phonogram or broadcast would not be perceivable, including the making
available of the work or other protected subject matter in such a way that members of the public
may access it from a place and at a time individually chosen by them;
“computer” means an electronic or similar device having information processing capabilities;
“computer programme” means a set of instructions, expressed in words, codes, schemes or in
any other form, which is capable, when incorporated in a machine-readable medium, of causing
a computer to perform or achieve a particular task or result;
“copy” includes a reproduction of a work in —
(a) a written form;
(b) the form of a recording; or
(c) any other form;
“copyright” means the economic and moral rights subsisting in a work;
“copyright owner” means where —