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"video-recording" means the embodiment of inter-related changing images,
with or without 2ccompanying sounds, in some enduring material form
permitting them to be repeatedly perceived , reproduced or communicated
to the public ;
A. 12 of 1967
"works first published in Lesotho" includes works first published abroad
but thereafter published in Lesotho within 30 days;
"works ofjoint authorship" means works created by two or more authors
in collaboration, in which the individual contributions are indistinguishable
from each other.
PART II - COPYRIGHT
Works in which copyright may subsist
3 . (1) Authors of original literary , artistic and scientific works shall be entitled
to copyright protection for their work under this Order, by the sole fact of the
creation of such works .
(2) Works shall be protected irrespective of their form of expression, and
the purpose for which they were created .
(3) Material fixation by the author of a work expressed otherwise in a
reproducible manner is not a condition of the protection of the work.
Derivative works
.4) The following shall also be protected as original works,
(a) translations, adaptations, arrangements and other transformations of
literary, artistic or scientific works ;
(b) collections of literary, artistic or scientific works, such as encyclopedias
and anthologies, which by reason of the selection and arrangement of their
contents, constitute intellectual creation; and
(c) works inspired by expressions of folklore .
(2) The protection of any work referred to in subsection (1) shall be without
prejudice to any protection of a pre-existing work or expression of folklore
utilized for the making of such work.
Subject matter not protected
5. Notwithstanding sections 3 and 4, protection shall not extend to,
(a) rules or decisions of courts and administrative bodies, as well as to official
translation thereof;
(b) news of the day published, broadcast or publicly communicated by any
other means ; and
(c) mere communications of facts and data
Substance of copyright