Volume 111, Issue 59A
Royal Gazette
21 December 2537
(1)in relation to a literary work, it shall include translating a literary work, converting[1] a literary work, or compiling a literary work through selection and reorganisation;[2]
(2)in relation to a computer program, it shall include reproducing a computer program by converting, improving, or editing it in its essential part, without the characteristic of making a new [computer program];
(3)in relation to a dramatic work, it shall include changing a non-dramatic work into a dramatic work or changing a dramatic work into a non-dramatic work, whether in the original language or in a different language;
(4)in relation to an artistic work, it shall include changing a work which is a two-dimensional or three-dimensional image into a three-dimensional or two-dimensional image, or producing a replica of an original work;
(5)in relation to a musical work, it shall include reorganising, rearranging musically, or changing the lyrics or melody;[3]
"communicate to the public" means to cause to be available to the public a work which has been made, by [means of] display,[4] narration, chanting, playing,[5] making available through sound and/or picture, construction, disposal,[6] or by any other means;
"publish"[7] means to issue for disposal[6] replications[8] of a work which have been produced with the consent of the author, irrespective of whatever appearance or form they are in, when those replications are available to the public in a considerable quantity according to the nature of such work, but not including the display or making available of a dramatic work, musical work, or film, the giving of a narration or lecture on a literary work, the transmission of sound and picture in relation to any work, the exhibition of an artistic work, and the construction of a work of architecture;
"competent official" means a person appointed by the Minister to execute this Act;
"Director-General" means the Director-General of the Department of Intellectual Property, and shall also include the person assigned by the Director-General of the Department of Intellectual Property;
"Commission" means the Copyright Commission;
"Minister" means the Minister in charge of this Act.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedcv - ↑ Literally, "setting the order anew", which can also refer to reorder, rearrangement, etc.
- ↑ Literally, "organising, arranging musically, or changing the lyrics or melody anew".
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedsd - ↑ Performing music, performing on a musical instrument, or making (a player, for example) produce sound or picture.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Disposing or allotting of, as by gift or sale. Samnak-ngan Ratchabandittayasapha (2013) defines chamnai (จำหน่าย) as "to sell, to allot, to give, to exchange, to assign; to remove, to take out".
- ↑ Written as a noun in the original Thai text.
- ↑ Literally, "replicated copies"
