“public place” means any building, or conveyance to which for the time being
the public are entitled or permitted to have access, with or without
payment which may include cinema, concert, dance or video halls, bars,
clubs, sports grounds, holiday resorts, circuses, restaurants, counter
vehicles, banks or other commercial establishments;
“Registrar” means the Registrar of copyright appointed under section 41;
“reproduction” means the making of one or more copies of a work or sound
recording in any manner or form including any permanent or temporary
storage of the work or sound recording in electronic form.
“sound recording” means any exclusively aural fixation of sound in a material
carrier such as a tape, disc or other similar material but does not include
audio visual work including sound.
3. Application of the Act.
This Act applies to any work, including work, created or published before the
commencement of this Act, which has not yet fallen into the public domain where
the work is—
(a) created by a citizen of Uganda or a person resident in Uganda;
(b) first published in Uganda, irrespective of the nationality or residence of the
author;
(c) created by a person who is a national of or resident in a country referred to
in section 81 or;
(d) first published in a country referred to in section 81.
PART II—COPYRIGHT PROTECTION AND RIGHTS
4.
Author entitled to copyright protection.
(1) The author of any work specified in section 5 shall have a right of
protection of the work, where work is original and is reduced to material form in
whatever method irrespective of quality of the work or the purpose for which it is
created.
(2) The protection of the author’s work under subsection (1) shall not be
subject to any formality.
(3) For the purpose of this section, a work is original if it is the product of the
independent efforts of the author.
5.
Work eligible for copyright.
(1) The following literary, scientific and artistic works are eligible
copyright—
for