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similar arrangement, and includes exchange of copies that is
carried out as an organized activity;
“reproduction” means the making of one or more copies by any
means of a work or related subject matter in whole or in part, and
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(a) making a fixation from a performance or
communication;
(b) permanent or temporary storage in electronic form; and
(c) in the case of an artistic work, includes converting
a work into a threedimensional form or, if existing in a
threedimensional form, converting it into a twodimensional
form;
“royalty” means payment to an author or owners of rights for
use of their work where prior authorization was granted;
“Society” means the Copyright Society of Malawi established
under section 4;
“sound recording” means the fixation of the sounds of a
performance or of other sounds, or of a representation of sounds,
from which the sounds may be conveyed, regardless of the
medium in which the recording is made or the method by
which the sounds are conveyed, but does not include, except
where otherwise stated, the fixation when incorporated in an
audiovisual work;
“tangible copy” means a fixed copy that may be put into
circulation as a tangible object;
“work” means a literary, dramatic, musical, artistic or
audiovisual work within the meaning of the Berne convetion for
the Production of Literary and Atistic works , in the form of text
notation or related illustrations whither published or otherwise
made publicty available in any media;
“works of applied art” means an artistic work applied to
objects for practical use whether handicraft or works produced on
industrial scale; and
“works of joint authorship” means a work created by the
collaboration of two or more authors in which the contribution of
each author is not separable from, or is interdependent with, the
contribution of the other author or authors.
3.__(1) Copyright, in accordance with this Act, shall subsist
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