Copyright Act
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(a) in section 36 of this Act, a period of twelve months; and
(b) elsewhere in this Act, a calendar year, that is to say, a period of
twelve months beginning on 1st January and ending of 31st December.
(2) The following provisions shall apply with respect to publication, that is to say-
(a) a work shall be deemed to have been published if copies of it have
been made available in a manner sufficient to render the work
accessible to the public;
(b) where in the first instance, a part only of a work is published, that
part shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as a separate work;
(c) a publication in any country shall not be treated as being other than
the first publication by reason only of an earlier publication elsewhere
if the two publications took place within a period of not more than
thirty days.
40. (1) The Copyright Act 1970 is hereby repealed.
(2) Sections 491, 492 and 493 of the First Schedule to the Criminal Code Act are hereby repealed.
(3) The transitional and saving provisions in the Fifth Schedule to this Act shall have effect
notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section or any other provisions of this Act
41. This Act may be cited as the Copyright Act.
First Schedule
Terms of Copyright
Type of work
Date of expiration
1.
Literary, musical or artistic works other
than photographs.
Seventy years after the end of the year in which the author
dies; in the case of government or a body corporate, seventy
years after the end of the year in which the work was first
published.
2.
Cinematograph films and photographs.
Fifty years after the end of the year in which the work was
first published.
3.
Sound recordings.
Fifty years after the end of the year in which the recording
was first made.
4.
Broadcasts.
Fifty years after the end of the year in which the broadcasting
first took place.
Second Schedule
Exceptions from Copyright Control
The right conferred in respect of a work by section 5 of this Act does not include the right to control(a) the doing of any of the acts mentioned in the said section 5 by way of fair dealing for purposes of
research, private use, criticism or review or the reporting of current events, subject to the condition
that, if the use is public, it shall be accompanied by an acknowledgement of the title of the work and
its authorship except where the work is incidentally included in a broadcast;
(b) the doing of any of the aforesaid acts by way of parody, pastiche, or caricature;
(c) the inclusion in a firm of a broadcast of an artistic work situated in a place where it can be
viewed by the public;
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