been done in respect of such works or an adaptation thereof, namely (i)
the publication thereof;
(ii)
the performance thereof in public;
(iii)
the offer for sale to the public of records thereof;
(iv)
the broadcasting thereof;
the term of copyright shall continue to subsist for a period of fifty years from the
end of the year in which the first of the said acts is done;
[Para. (a) amended by s. 3 (a) of Act 52 of 1984.]
(b)
cinematograph films, photographs and computer programs, fifty years from the
end of the year in which the work(i)
is made available to the public with the consent of the owner of the
copyright; or
(ii)
is first published,
whichever term is the longer, or failing such an event within fifty years of the
making of the work, fifty years from the end of the year in which the work is
made;
[Para. (b) substituted by s. 3 (b) of Act 125 of 1992 and by s. 52 of Act 38 of
1997.]
(c)
sound recordings, fifty years from the end of the year in which the recording is
first published;
(d)
broadcasts, fifty years from the end of the year in which the broadcast first takes
place;
(e)
programme -carrying signals, fifty years from the end of the year in which the
signals are emitted to a satellite;
(f)
published editions, fifty years from the end of the year in which the edition is
first published.
[Para. (f) added by s. 3 (b) of Act 52 of 1984.]
(3)
(a)
In the case of anonymous or pseudonymous works, the copyright therein shall
subsist for fifty years from the end of the year in which the work is made
available to the public with the consent of the owner of the copyright or from the
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