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NO. 2 OF 1987


(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 sound-track associated with such visual images;
“citizen of Singapore” includes a person who, if he had been alive on 1st November 1957, would have qualified for Singapore citizenship under the Singapore Citizenship Ordinance 1957 (Ord. 35 of 1957);
“computer program” means an expression, in any language, code or notation, of a set of instructions (whether with or without related information) intended, either directly or after either or both of the following:
(a) conversion to another language, code or notation;
(b) reproduction in a different material form, to cause a device having information processing capabilities to perform a particular function;
“construction” includes erection and “reconstruction” shall have 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;
“Copyright Act 1911” means the Copyright Act 1911 of the United Kingdom insofar as it has effect as part of the law of Singapore;
“Copyright Tribunal” or “Tribunal” means the Copyright Tribunal established under Part VII;
“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;