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Authority,
prescribing the public officer or other authority by whom licences may
be granted for the production of the works in question and a scale of
fees to be charged in respect of any such licence.
(3) Regulations made under subsection (2) of this section, shall be additional to and not in
derogation of any enactment or other law regulating the custody of the National Archives of Nigeria
or the public records of a State, and shall be without prejudice to the operation of section 11 (2) of
this Act.
38. The Federal High Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction for the trial of offences or disputes under this Act.
39. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
"adaptation" means the modification of a pre-existing work from one genre of work to another and
consists in altering work within the same genre to make it suitable for different conditions of
exploitation, and may also involve altering the composition of the work;
"artistic work" includes, irrespective of artistic quality, any of the following works or works similar
thereto
(a) paintings, drawings, etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, engravings
and prints;
(b) maps, plans and diagrams;
(c) works of sculpture;
(d) photographs not comprised in a cinematographic film;
(e) works of architecture in the form of buildings models; and
(f) works of artistic craftsmanship and also (subject to section 1 (3) of
this Act) pictorial woven tissues and articles of applied handicraft
and industrial art;
"author" in the case of cinematograph film or sound recording means the person by whom the
arrangements for making of the film or sound recording were made, unless the parties to the making
of the film or sound recording, provide otherwise by contract within themselves;
"author" in the case of literary, artistic or musical works, means the creator of the work;
"author" in the case of photographic work, means the person who took the photograph;
"author" in the case of broadcast transmitted from within any country, means the person by whom the
arrangements for the making or the transmission from within that country were undertaken;
"broadcast" means sound or television broadcast by wireless telegraphy or wire or both, or by
satellite or cable programmes and includes re-broadcast;
"broadcasting authority" means any authority established under any law in Nigeria or elsewhere
providing broadcasting services for public reception;
"building" includes any structure;
"cable programmes" means visual images, sounds or other information sent by means of a
telecommunication system otherwise than by wireless telegraphy for reception-
(a) at two or more places (whereas for simultaneous reception or at
different times) in response to request by different users; or
(b) for presentation to members of the public;
"choreographic work" means a composition of movements for dancing or any other patterned
succession of gestures mostly created to accompany music;
"cinematograph film" includes the first fixation of a sequence of visual images capable of being the
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