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Laws of Malaysia
Act 332
“reproduction” means the making of one or more copies of a
work in any form or version, and in relation to an artistic work
includes the making of a copy in three dimensions of a twodimensional work and the making of a copy in two dimensions of
a three-dimensional work, and “reproducing” shall be construed
accordingly;
“sculpture” includes a cast or model made for the purposes of
a sculpture;
“sound recording” means any fixation of a sequence of sounds
or of a representation of sounds capable of being perceived aurally
and of being reproduced by any means, but does not include a
soundtrack associated with a film;
“technological protection measure” means any technology,
device or component that, in the normal course of its operation,
effectively prevents or limits the doing of any act that results in
an infringement of the copyright in a work;
“Tribunal” means the Copyright Tribunal established under
section 28; and
“work of joint authorship” means a work produced by the
collaboration of two or more authors in which the contribution
of each author is not separable from the contribution of the other
author or authors.
Publication
4. (1) Subject to this section, for the purposes of this Act—
(a) a literary, musical or artistic work, or an edition of such
a work, shall be deemed to have been published only if
a copy or copies of the work have been made available
with the consent of the author or of any person lawfully
claiming under the author in a manner sufficient to satisfy
the reasonable requirements of the public, whether by
sale or otherwise;