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CREA TIVEFIRST COPYRIGHT 101

Section 14 Meaning of copyright -
For the purposes of this Act, “copyright” means the exclusive right
subject to the provisions of this Act, to do or authorise the doing of
any of the following acts in respect of a work or any substantial part
thereof, namely:—

(a) in the case of a literary, dramatic or musical work, not being a
computer programme,—

(i) to reproduce the work in any material form including the
storing of it in any medium by electronic means;

(ii) to issue copies of the work to the public not being copies
already in circulation;

(iii) to perform the work in public, or communicate it to the
public;

(iv) to make any cinematograph lm or sound recording in
respect of the work;

(v) to make any translation of the work;

(vi) to make any adaptation of the work;

(vii) to do, in relation to a translation or an adaptation of the
work, any of the acts speci ed in relation to the work in
sub-clauses (i) to (vi);

(b) in the case of a computer programme,—

(i) to do any of the acts speci ed in clause (a);

(ii) to sell or give on commercial rental or offer for sale or for
commercial rental any copy of the computer programme:
Provided that such commercial rental does not apply in
respect of computer programmes where the programme
itself is not the essential object of the rental.

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