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No. 63
Copyright
1968

"broadcast" means broadcast by wireless telegraphy, and "broadcasting" has a corresponding meaning;

"building" includes a structure of any kind;

"calendar year" means a period of twelve months commencing on the first day of January; "cinematograph film" means the aggregate of the visual images embodied in an article or thing so as to be capable by the use of that article or thing—

(a) of being shown as a moving picture; or
(b) of being embodied in another article or thing by the use of which it can be so shown,

and includes the aggregate of the sounds embodied in a soundtrack associated with such visual images;

"construction " includes erection, and " reconstruction " has a corresponding meaning;

"copy", in relation to a cinematograph film, means any article or thing in which the visual images or sounds comprising the film are embodied; "dramatic work" includes—

(a) a choreographic show or other dumb show if described in writing in the form in which the show is to be presented; and
(b) a scenario or script for a cinematograph film,

but does not include a cinematograph film as distinct from the scenario or script for a cinematograph film; "drawing" includes a diagram, map, chart or plan;

"engraving" includes an etching, lithograph, product of photogravure, woodcut, print or similar work, not being a photograph;

"exclusive licence" means a licence in writing, signed by or on behalf of the owner or prospective owner of copyright, authorizing the licensee, to the exclusion of all other persons, to do an act that, by virtue of this Act, the owner of the copyright would, but for the licence, have the exclusive right to do, and" exclusive licensee" has a corresponding meaning;

"future copyright" means copyright to come into existence at a future time or upon the happening of a future event;

"holder of a licence for a broadcasting station " means a holder of a subsisting licence for a commercial broadcasting station under the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942-1967;

"holder of a licence for a television station " means a holder of a subsisting licence for a commercial television station under the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942-1967;