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Intellectual Property Act 2003 · இயற்றப்பட்டவாறு · Part II

5. Interpretation

அதிகாரப்பூர்வ ஆங்கில மொழிபெயர்ப்பு. சிங்கள அல்லது தமிழ் உரையிலிருந்து வேறுபடும் இடங்களில் எந்த உரை மேலோங்கும் என்பதைச் சட்டமே குறிப்பிடுகிறது.

For the purposes of this Part—

“audiovisual work” means a work that consists of a series of related images which impart the impression of motion, with or without accompanying sounds, susceptible of being made visible, and where accompanied by sounds susceptible of being made audible ;

“author” means the physical person who has created the work ;

“broadcasting” means the communication of a work, a performance or a sound recording to the public by wireless transmission, including transmission by satellite ;

“collective work” means a work created by two or more physical persons at the initiative and under the direction of a physical person or legal entity, with the understanding that it will be disclosed by the latter person or entity under his or its own name and that the identity of the contributing physical persons will not be indicated ;

“communication to the public” means the transmission to the public by wire or without wire of the images or sounds, or both, of a work, a performance or a sound recording including the making available to the public of a work, performance or sound recording in such a way that members of the public may access them from a place and at a time individually chosen by them ;

“computer” means an electronic or similar device having information processing capabilities ;

“computer program” is a set of instructions expressed in words, codes, schemes or in any other form, which is capable, when incorporated in a medium that the computer can read, of causing a computer to perform or achieve a particular task or result ;

“economic rights” means the rights referred to in section 9 ;

“expression of folklore” means a group oriented and tradition based creation of groups or individuals reflecting the expectation of the community as an adequate expression of its cultural and social identity, its standards and values as transmitted orally, by imitation or by other means, including :

(a)

folktales, folk poetry, and folk riddles ;

(b)

folk songs and instrumental folk music ;

(c)

folk dances and folk plays ;

(d)

productions of folk arts in particular, drawings, paintings, carvings, sculptures, pottery, terracotta, mosaic, woodwork, metalware, jewellery, handicrafts, costumes, and indigenous textiles ;

“infringement” means an act that violated any right protected under this Part ;

“moral rights” means rights referred to in section 10 ;

“performers” means singers, musicians, and other persons who sing, deliver, declaim, play in, or otherwise perform, literary or artistic works or expressions of folklore ;

“photographic work” means the recording of light or other radiation on any medium on which an image is produced or from which an image may be produced, irrespective of the technique (chemical, electronic or other) by which such recording is made, a still picture extracted from an audiovisual work shall not be considered a “photographic work” but a part of the audiovisual work concerned ;

“producer” of an audiovisual work or a sound recording means the physical person or legal entity that undertakes the initiative and responsibility for the making of the audiovisual work or sound recording ;

“public display” means the showing of the original or a copy of a work—

(a)

directly ;

(b)

by means of a film, slide, television image or otherwise on screen ;

(c)

by means of any other device or process ; or

(d)

in the case of an audiovisual work, the showing of individual images nonsequentially at a place or places where persons outside the normal circle of a family and its closest social acquaintances are or can be present, irrespective of whether they are or can be present at the same place and time or at different places or times, and where the work can be displayed without communication to the public within the meaning of the definition of the expression

“Communication to the Public”;

“public lending” means the transfer of the possession of the original or a copy of a work or a sound recording for a limited period of time for non-profit making purposes, by an institution, the services of which are available to the public, such as a public library or archives ;

“public performance” means—

(a)

in the case of a work other than an audiovisual work, the recitation, playing, dancing, acting or otherwise performing the work in public either directly or by means of any device or process ;

(b)

in the case of an audiovisual work, the showing of images in sequence or the making of accompanying sound audible in public ; and

(c)

in the case of a sound recording, making the recording sounds audible at a place or at places where persons outside the normal circle of the family and its closest acquaintances are or can be present, irrespective of whether they are or can be present at the same place and time, or at different places or times, and where the performance can be perceived without the need for communication to the public within the meaning of the definition of the expression“communication to the public” ;

“published” means a work or a sound recording—

(a)

copies of which have been made available to the public in a reasonable quantity for sale, rental, public lending or for transfer of the ownership or the possession of the copies ;

(b)

which has been made available to the public by means of an electronic system :

Provided that, in the case of a work, the making available to the public took place with the consent of the owner of the copyright, and in the case of a sound recording, with the consent of, the producer of the sound recording or his successor in title ;

“rental” means the transfer of the possession of the original or a copy of a work or sound recording for a limited period of time for profit making purposes ;

“reproduction” means the making of one or more copies of a work or sound recording in any material form, including any permanent or temporary storage of a work or sound recording in electronic form ;

“sound recording” means any exclusively aural fixation of the sounds of a performance or of other sounds, regardless of the method by which the sounds are fixed or the medium in which the sounds are embodied ; it does not include a fixation of sounds and images, such as the sounds incorporated in an audiovisual work ;

“work” means any literary, artistic or scientific work referred to in section 6 ;

“work of applied art” means an artistic creation with utilitarian functions or incorporated in a useful article, whether made by hand or produced on an industrial scale ;

“work of joint authorship” means a work to the creation of which two or more authors have contributed, provided the work does not qualify as “a collective work”.

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