page 3 using a computer or an electronic method able to process the information. (14) “Databases” means any collection of works, data or other independent elements, arranged systematically or methodically, and which are individually accessible by electronic or any other means. (15) The term “published” refers to a work or a phonogram, copies of which have been made available to the public with the author’s consent in the case of a work, or with the producer’s consent in the case of a phonogram, for the sale, hiring, public loan or any other transfer of ownership or possession, in sufficient quantities to meet the normal needs of the public. (16) “Broadcasting” means the communication of a work, performance or phonogram to the public by wireless transmission, including satellite transmission. (17) “Reproduction” means the manufacture of one or more copies of a work, performance or phonogram, or part thereof, in any form whatsoever, including the sound and visual recording, and permanent or temporary storage, of a work, performance or phonogram, in electronic form. (18) The “reprographic reproduction” of a work means the manufacture of facsimile copies of originals or copies of the work by means other than painting, for example, photocopying. The manufacture of facsimile copies that are reduced or enlarged shall also be regarded as “reprographic reproduction”. (19) “Hiring” means the transfer of ownership of the original or a copy of a work or phonogram for a fixed duration, for profit-making purposes. (20) “Public performance” means the fact of reciting, playing, dancing, or otherwise performing a work, either directly, or by means of any device or process—or, in the case of an audiovisual work, showing the images thereof in series or making audible the sounds which accompany it—in one or more places where persons external to a family circle and those immediately around it are or may be present, irrespective of whether these persons are or may be present in the same place and at the same time, or in different places and at different times, where the performance may be perceived, without there necessarily being public communication as defined in paragraph (22) below. (21) “Performing a work” means reciting, playing, dancing or performing the work, either directly or by means of any device or process or, in the case of an audiovisual work, showing the images of the work in any order or making the sounds accompanying it audible. (22) “Public communication” means the wire(less) transmission of the image, sound, or image and sound, of a work, performance or phonogram in such a way that these may be perceived by persons external to a family circle and those immediately around it, located in one or more places sufficiently far from the place of origin of the transmission so that, without this transmission, the image or sound cannot be perceived in this (these) place(s), irrespective of whether these persons may perceive the image or sound in the same place and at the same time, or in different places and at different times which they have chosen individually. (23) “Performers” means actors, singers, musicians, dancers and other persons who perform, recite, sing, declaim, play or perform in any other manner artistic and literary works or expressions of folklore. (24) A “copy” means the result of any act of reproduction. 3