“moral right” means the right to claim authorship or performance as is provided
in sections 10 and 23;
“moral rights information” means information which identifies the author of the
work or performer, the title of the work, the producer of the sound
recording or audio-visual fixation, the owner of any right in the work or
information about the terms and conditions of use of the work;
“neighbouring rights” include rights of performing artistes in their
performances, rights of producers and music publishers and rights of
broadcasting companies in their programmes and others as is provided
under Part IV;
“performance” means the presentation of a work by actions such as dancing,
acting, playing, reciting, singing, delivering, declaiming or projecting to
listeners or spectators;
“performer” includes an actor or actress, singer, musician, dancer or other
persons who act, sing, deliver, declaim, play in, interpret, or otherwise
perform literary or artistic works or expressions of folklore;
“producer” means a person who organises and finances the production of an
audio visual fixation or sound recording;
“pseudonym” means the fictitious name adopted by an author;
“publication” means the lawful reproduction of a work or of an audio-visual or
audio visual sound recording, fixation or of sound recording for
availability to the public; and includes public performances and making
available of a work on the internet;
“published” means a work or sound recording, tangible copies of which have
been made available to the public in a reasonable quantity for sale, rental,
public lending or for other transfer of the ownershiip or the possession of
the copies, provided that, in the case of work the making available to the
public took place with the consent of the author or other owner of
copyright, and in the case of a sound recording, with the consent in
writing of the producer of the phonogram or his or her successor in title;
“public performance” means a performance of work which is presented to
listeners or spectators not restricted to specific persons belonging to a
private group and which exceeds the limits or normal domestic
representations;
“programme-carrying signals” means electronically generated carriers
transmitting live or recorded material consisting of images, sounds, or
both images and sounds in their original, form or any form recognisably
derived from the original and emitted to or passing through a satellite
situated in extra-territorial space;