[Rev. 2014]
Copyright
CAP. 130
CHAPTER 130
COPYRIGHT ACT
[Date of assent: 31st December, 2001.]
[Date of commencement: 1st February, 2003.]
An Act of Parliament to make provision for copyright in literary, musical and
artistic works, audio-visual works, sound recordings, broadcasts and for
connected purposes
[Corr. No. 44/2002, L.N. 15/2003, L.N. 54/2003, Act No. 6 of 2006, Act No. 7 of 2007,
Act No. 10 of 2010, Act No. 12 of 2012, Act No. 18 of 2014.]
PART I – PRELIMINARY
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Copyright Act, 2001.
2. Interpretation
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
“artistic work” means, irrespective of artistic quality, any of the following,
or works similar thereto—
(a) paintings, drawings, etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, engravings
and prints;
(b) maps, plans and diagrams;
(c) works of sculpture;
(d) photographs not comprised in audio-visual works;
(e) works of architecture in the form of buildings or models; and
(f) works of artistic craftsmanship, pictorial woven tissues and articles
of applied handicraft and industrial art;
“audio-visual work” means a fixation in any physical medium of images,
either synchronised with or without sound, from which a moving picture may by
any means be reproduced and includes videotapes and videogames but does
not include a broadcast;
“authentication device” means any legal device that is used as proof that
works or copies thereof are legitimate;
“author”, in relation to—
(a) a literary, musical or artistic work, means the person who first
makes or creates the work;
(b) a photograph, means the person who is responsible for the
composition of the photograph;
(c) a sound recording, means a person by whom the arrangements
for the making of the sound recording were made;
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