Intellectual Property Act 2003 · As enacted · Part II
9. Economic rights
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Subject to the provisions of sections 11 to 13 the owner of copyright of a work shall have the exclusive right to carry out or to authorize the following acts in relation to the work —
reproduction of the work ;
translation of the work ;
adaptation, arrangement or other transformation of the work ;
the public distribution of the original and each copy of the work by sale, rental, export or otherwise ;
rental of the original or a copy of an audiovisual work, a work embodied in a sound recording, a computer program, a data base or a musical work in the form of notation, irrespective of the ownership of the original or copy concerned ;
importation of copies of the work, (even where the imported copies were made with the authorization of the owner of the copyright) ;
public display of the original or a copy of the work ;
public performance of the work ;
broadcasting of the work ; and
other communication to the public of the work.
The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall apply to both the entire work and a substantial part thereof.
The rights of rental in terms of paragraph (e) of subsection (1) shall not apply to rental of computer programs where the program itself is not the essential object of the rental.
Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (d) of subsection (1), the owner of a work or a copy of a work lawfully made or any person authorized in that behalf by such owner, is entitled without the authority of the owner of the copyright, to sell or otherwise dispose of that copy.
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