"artistic work" meansa graphic work, photograph, sculpture or collage, irrespective of its artistic quality;
a work of architecture, being a building or a model of a building, irrespective of its
artistic quality;
(c) a work of artistic craftsmanship not falling within paragraph (a) or (b) of this definition,
irrespective of its artistic quality;
"audiovisual work" means a work that consists of a series of related images which
impart the impression of motion, with or without accompanying sounds, susceptible to being
made visible, and where accompanied by sounds, susceptible to being made audible;
"author" means the person who has created a work, and shall include(a) in relation to a literary work, the author of the work;
(b) in relation to a musical work, the composer;
(c) in relation to an artistic work other than a photograph, the artist;
(d) in relation to a photograph, the photographer;
(e) in the case of a sound recording or film, the person by whom the arrangements
necessary for making the recording or film are undertaken;
(f)
in the case of a broadcast, the person making the broadcast or, in case of broadcast
which relays another broadcast by reception and immediate re-transmission, the
person making the other broadcast;
(g) in the case of a cable programme, the person providing the cable programme service
in which the programme is included;
(h) in the case of a typographical arrangement of a published edition, the publisher;
(i)
in the case of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work which is computer-generated,
the person by whom the arrangements necessary for the creation of the work are
undertaken;
"broadcasting" means the communication of a work, a performance or a sound
recording to the public by wireless transmission, including transmission by satellite;
"collective work" means a work created by two or more persons at the initiative and
under the direction of another person, with the understanding that it will be disclosed by the
latter person under his or its own name and that the identity of the contributing persons will not
be indicated;
"communication to the public" means the transmission by wire or without wire of the
images or sounds, or both, of a work, a performance, a sound recording or a broadcast in such
a way that the images or sounds can be perceived by persons outside the normal circle of a
family and its closest social acquaintance at a place or places so distant from the place where
the transmission originates that, without the transmission, the images or sound would not be
perceivable and, further, irrespective of whether the persons can receive the images or sounds
at the same place and time, or at different places or times 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 medium that the
computer can read, of causing a computer to perform or achieve a particular task or result;
"copyright" in relation to a work means the exclusive right, by virtue and subject to the
provisions of this Act, to do, and authorise other persons to do, certain acts in relation to that
work in Botswana or in any other country to which the relevant provisions of this Act extends;
''Copyright Arbitration Panel'' means the Copyright Arbitration Panel established
under section 33A of the Act;
''Copyright Society'' means the Copyright Society of Botswana established under
section 36A of the Act;
"dramatic work" includes a work of dance or mime;
(a)
(b)
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