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Copyright Act, 1978 (Act No. 98 of 1978)

Chapter 1 : Copyright in Original Works

7. Nature of copyright in artistic works

 

(1) Copyright in an artistic work vests the exclusive right to do or to authorise the doing of any of the following acts in the Republic:
(a) Reproducing the work in any manner or form;
(b) publishing the work if it was hitherto unpublished;
(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 operated by the original broadcaster;
(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.

 

(2) [Section 7 deleted by section 8(c) of Act No. 125 of 1992]