PART I - PRELIMINARY
1. Citation and commencement.
These Regulations may be cited as the Copyright Regulations, 2004.
2. Interpretation.
In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires –
“Authority” means the Competent Authority established under section 48 of the Act.
“exclusive licence” means a licence in writing signed by or on behalf of an owner or
prospective owner of copyright or related rights, authorizing the licensee to the exclusion
of all other persons, including the person granting the licence, to exercise a right which
by virtue of the Act would (apart from the licence) be exercisable exclusively by the
owner of copyright or related rights and “exclusive licensee” shall be construed
accordingly.
“public display” means the showing of original or a copy of a work –
(a) directly;
(b) by means of a film, slide, television image or otherwise on screen;
(c) by means of any other device or process; or
(d) in the case of an audio-visual work, the showing of individual images consequentially
at a place or places where persons outside the normal circle of a family and its closest
social acquaintances are or can be present, irrespective of whether they are or can be
present at the same place and time or at different places or times, and where the work can
be displayed without communication to the public;
“public performance” means –
(a) in the case of a work other than an audio-visual work, the recitation, playing, dancing,
acting or otherwise performing the work, either directly or by means of any device or
process;
(b) in the case of an audio-visual work, the showing of images in sequence and the
making of accompanying sounds audible; and
(c) in the case of a sound recording, making the recorded sounds audible at a place or at
places where persons outside the normal circle of the family and its closest acquaintances
are or can be present, irrespective of whether they are or can be present at the same place
and time, or at different places or times, and where the performance can be perceived
without the need for communication to the public.