Copyright Act
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subject of reproduction, and includes the recording of a sound track associated with the
cinematograph film;
"communication to the public" includes, in addition to any live performance or delivery, any mode of
visual or acoustic presentation, but does not include a broadcast or re-broadcast;
"computer programme" means a set of statements, or instructions to be used directly or indirectly in a
computer in order to bring about a certain result;
"copy" means a reproduction in written form, in the form of a recording or cinematograph film, or in
any other material form, so however that an object shall not be taken to be a copy of an architectural
work unless the object is a building or model;
"copyright" means copyright under this Act;
"court" means the Federal High Court;
"exclusive licence" means a licence signed by or on behalf of a copyright owner, authorising the
licensee to the exclusion of all other persons (including the person granting the licence), to exercise
any right which would otherwise be exercisable exclusively by the copyright owner;
"licence" means a lawfully granted licence permitting the doing of an act controlled by this Act;
"literary work" includes, irrespective of literary quality, any of the following works or works
similar thereto-
(a) novels, stories and poetic works;
(b) plays, stage directions, film scenarios and broadcasting scripts;
(c) choreographic works;
(d) computer programmes;
(e) text-books, treaties, histories, biographies, essays and articles;
(f) encyclopaedias, dictionaries, directories and anthologies;
(g) letters, reports, and memoranda;
(h) lectures, addresses and sermons;
(i) law reports, excluding decision of courts;
(j) written tables or complaints;
"Minister" means the Minister charged with responsibility for culture;
"musical work" means any musical work, irrespective of musical quality and includes works
composed for musical accompaniment
"re-broadcast" means a simultaneous or subsequent broadcast by one broadcasting authority of the
broadcast of another broadcasting authority;
"reproduction" means the making of one or more copies of a literary, musical or artistic work,
cinematograph film or sound recording;
"sound recording" means the fixation of a sequence of sound capable of being perceived aurally and
of being reproduced but does not include a sound track associated with a cinematograph film;
"State authority" in relation to a State, means the Military Governor or Governor, as the case may be,
or other governmental authority of a State;
"work" includes translations, adaptation, new versions or arrangements of pre-existing works, and
anthologies or collection of works which, by reason of the selection and arrangement of their
content, present an original character;
"work of joint authorship" means a work produced by the collaboration of two or more authors in
which the contribution of each author is inseparable from the contribution of the other author or
authors;
"year" means-
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