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(2) Copyright conferred on a work by this section shall be subject to the same term of copyright provided for in section 3 for a similar work.

Copyright in relation to the state and certain international organizations.

5. (1) This Act shall bind the state.

(2) Copyright shall be conferred by this section on every work which is eligible for copyright and which is made by or under the direction or control of the state or such international organizations as may be prescribed.

(3) Copyright conferred by this section on a literary or musical work or an artistic work, other than a photograph, shall subsist for fifty years from the end of the year in which the work is first published.

(4) Copyright conferred by this section on a cinematograph film, photograph, sound recording, broadcast or programme-carrying signal shall be subject to the same term of copyright provided for in section 3 for a similar work.

(5) Sections 3 and 4 shall not confer copyright on works with reference to which this section applies.

(6) Copyright which vests in the state shall for administrative purposes be deemed to vest in such officer in the public service as may be designated by the State President by proclamation in the Gazette.

Nature of copyright in literary or musical works.

6. Copyright in a literary or musical work or any substantial part thereof vests the exclusive right to do or to authorize the doing of any of the following acts in the Republic:

(a)

Reproducing the work in any manner or form;

(b)

publishing the work;

(c)

performing the work in public;

(d)

broadcasting the work;

(e)

causing the work to be transmitted in a diffusion service, unless such service transmits a lawful broadcast, including the work, and is the original broadcast;

(f)

making an adaptation of the work;

(g)

doing, in relation to an adaptation of the work, any of the acts specified in relation to the work in paragraphs (a) to (e) inclusive.

Nature of copyright in artistic works.

7. Copyright in an artistic work or any substantial part thereof vests the exclusive right to do or to authorize the doing of any of the following acts in the Republic:

(a)

Reproducing the work in any manner or form;

(b)

publishing the work;

(c)

including the work in a cinematograph film or a television broadcast;

(d)

causing a television or other programme, which includes the work, to be transmitted in a diffusion service, unless such service transmits a lawful television broadcast, including the work, and is the original broadcast;

(e)

making an adaptation of the work;

(f)

doing, in relation to an adaptation of the work, any of the acts specified in relation to the work in paragraphs (a) to (d) inclusive.

Nature of copyright in cinematograph films.

8. (1) Copyright in a cinematograph film or any substantial part thereof vests the exclusive right to do or to authorize the doing of any of the following acts in the Republic:

(a)

Reproducing the film in any manner or form;

(b)

causing the film, in so far as it consists of images, to be seen in public, or, in so far as it consists of sounds, to be heard in public;

(c)

broadcasting the film;