Copyright Act, 2005 Act 690 " communication to the public" means the transmission, other than broadcasting,by wireor without wire, of the images or soundsor both of a work, a performance or a sound recording in such a way that the images or soundscan be perceivedby personsoutside the normal circle of a family and its closest social acquaintances at a place or places so distant from the place where the transmission originates thatwithout thetransmission, the imagesor soundswould not be perceivableirrespectiveof whetherthe person can receive images or sounds at the sameplace and time, or at differentplaces or timesindividually chosen bythem; "copy"meansa reproduction of a workin a writtenform,or in theform of a recording or film, or in any manneror form,but anobjectshall not be takento be a copyof an architectural work unlessthe object is a buildingor a model; "derivative work"means a workresulting fromadaptation, translation or other transformation of an original work in so far as it constitutes an independent creation; "device" includes audio or visual cassettes, compact discs, CD­ Rom's, VCR's, photocopymachinesand any other deviceusedto copycopyright materials; "fixation" means theembodiment ofsounds, images orimagesandsounds orofrepresentations made fromthemfromwhichthesounds, images or images and soundscan be perceived,reproducedor communi­ catedthrougha device; "folklore" means theliterary, artistic andscientific expressions belonging to the culturalheritageof Ghana which are created,preservedand developed by ethnic communitiesof Ghana or by an unidentified Ghanaian author, and includes kente and adinkra designs, where the author of the designs are not known, and any similar work designatedunderthisAct to be worksof folklore; "literary work"includes (a) novels,storiesor poeticalworks; (b) plays, stage directions, film scenarios or broadcasting scripts; (c) textbooks, treaties, histories, biographies, essays or articles; (d) encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, time tables, anthologies, databases or compilation of data or other material, whetherinmachine readable form, which byreason of the selection or arrangement of contents constitutes intellectual creations; 31