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Part I
Preliminary Provisions
Title and Commencement
1. This Act may be cited as the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Protection Act
Added by 1996 and it shall come into force upon signature.
Repeal and Saving
2. The Copyright Protection Act 1974 is hereby repealed but all regulations, orders and
rules made under it shall remain in force until amended or repealed in accordance with the
provisions of this Act.
Interpretation
3. In this Act, unless the context requires otherwise:
“Adaptation” means such acts as conversion of a novel into a dramatic work and vice
versa; in relation to computer programs it means making of a version whether or not in the
language, code or notation distinct from the original version.
“Broadcasting organization” means the legal entity which takes the initiative, organizes,
finances and effects the act of broadcasting.
“Broadcast” means transmission by wireless means of sounds or images or both.
“Computer program” means a set of instructions expressed in any language, code or
notation, with or without related information, intended to cause the device having an
information processing capacity to indicate, perform or achieve a particular function, task or
result.
“Data bank” means an electronic body of data processed and systematized with the aid
of a computer for storage and retrieval purposes.
“Fixation” means the embodiment of sounds, images or both in material form
sufficiently stable or permanent to permit them to be perceived, reproduced or otherwise
communicated during a period of more than transitory duration.
“Sound recording” means any exclusively aural fixation of sounds of a performance or
other sounds in a material carrier such as tape, disc, etc.
“Copyright” means all or any of the rights mentioned in section 8 of the Act and
includes other similar rights.