Copyright Act 1957

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S. 2] COPYRIGHT ACT, 1957 (iii) in relation to a record, any such record embodying the same recording ; and (iv) in relation to a programme in which a broadcast reproduction right subsists under Sec. 37, a record recording the programme, if such reproduction, copy or record is made or imported in contravention of the provision of this Act ; (n) "lecture" includes address, speech and sermon ; (0) "literary work" includes tables and compilations ; (p) "musical work" means any combination of melody and harmony or either of them, printed, reduced to writing or otherwise graphically produced or reproduced ; (9) "performance''includes any mode of visual or acoustic presentation including any such presentation by the exhibition of a cinematograph film, or by means or radio-diffusion, or by the use of a record, or by any other means and, in relation to a lecture, includes the delivery of such lecture; (r) "performing rights society" means a society, association or other body, whether incorporated or not, which carries on business in India. of issuing or granting licences for the performance in India of any works in which copyright subsists ; (s) "photogragh" includes photo-lithograph and any works produced by any process analogous to photography but does not include any part of a cinematograph film ; (t) "plate" includes any stereotype or other plate, stone, block, mould matrix, transfer, negative or other device used or intended to be used for printing or reproducing copies of any work, and any matrix or other appliance by which records for the acoustic presentation of the work are or are intended to be made ; (u) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act ; (v) "radio-diffusion" includes communication to the public by any means of wireless diffusion whether in the form of sounds or visual images or both ; (w) "record" means any disc, tape, perforated roll or other device in which sounds are embodied so as to be capable of being reproduced therefrom ; other than a sound track associated with a cinematograph film ; (x)! "recording" means the aggregate of the sounds embodied in and capable of being reproduced by means of a record ; (y) "work" means any of the following works, namely : (i) a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work; (ii) a cinematograph film ; (iii) a record ; (z) "work of joint authorship" means a work produced, by the colla boration of two or more authors in which the contribution of one author is not distinct from the contribution of the ather outhor or authors ; (z-a) "work of sculpture" includes casts and models. Comment Work -The definition of "work" is to be found in sub-section () of Sec. 2 of the Copyright Act, 1957. It would appear that the Copyright Act... 1957. does not recognize the performance of an actor as "work" which is protected by the Copyright Act. 1. Messrs. Fortune Films International p. 24. V. Dev Anand, A. I. R. 1979 Bom. 17 at