“licence” means a written authorisation granted by a copyright owner to another person to
exploit the copyright wholly or in part;
“local production” means a work wholly or substantially produced in Mauritius;
“Minister” means the Minister to whom responsibility for the subject of copyright and related
rights are assigned;
“moral right” means a right specified in section 7;
“original work” —
(a)
means a work which is the product of a person’s individual creation; but
(b)
excludes a work which is essentially a copy of another work;
“perform” means to present a work or expressions of folklore by a personal rendition;
“performer” means actors, singers, musicians, dancers, and other persons who act, sing,
deliver, declaim, play in, interpret or otherwise perform literary or artistic works or expressions of
folklore;
“phonogram” is the fixation of the sounds of a performance or of other sounds, or of a
representation of sounds, other than in the form of a fixation incorporated in a cinematographic
or other audiovisual work;
“photographic work” is a recording of light or other radiation on any medium on which an image
is produced or from which an image may be produced, irrespective of the technique (chemical,
electronic or other) by which such recording is made;
“producer of an audiovisual work or a phonogram” is the natural person or legal entity who
undertakes the initiative and responsibility for the making of the audiovisual work or phonogram;