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Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 1(1): An author, co-author or joint author of any of the following works is entitled to the copyright and protection afforded to that work under this Ac ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

section 2: Copyright shall not extend to ideas, concepts, procedures, methods or other things of a similar nature. ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 4(2): The rights of folklore are vested in the President on behalf of and in trust for the people of the Republic. ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 17: The rights vested in the President on behalf of and in trust for the people of the Republic in respect of folklore under section 4 exist in perpetui ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 5: The author of any protected copyright work has the exclusive economic right in respect of the work to do or authorise the doing of any of the followi ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 6: In addition to the economic rights referred to in section 5, the author of protected copyright work has the sole moral right(a) to claim authorship o ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 18: The moral rights of authors under section 6 exist in perpetuity and these rights shall be enforceable by the author, during the lifetime of the auth ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 10(1): The producer of a sound recording or audio visual work shall state on the label of the sound recording or audio visual work or on its container(a ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 12: (1) The rights of the author referred to in section 5 are protected during the life of the author and seventy years after the death of the author un ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 13: Where the copyright in a work is owned by a public corporation or other body corporate, the term of protection shall be seventy years from the date ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 14: Where a work is published anonymously or under a pseudonym, the rights of the author referred to in section 5 are protected until the expiration of ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 15: In the case of an audio-visual work, the rights of the author referred to in section 5 are protected until the expiration of seventy years from the ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 16: In the case of a sound recording, the rights of the author referred to in section 5 are protected from the publication of the sound recording until ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 26: An officer of the Customs, Excise and Preventive Service shall, unless satisfied that an imported sound recording or other copyright work is not a p ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 27(1) There shall be imposed on any device capable of being used to copy a copyright work a levy of a sum that shall be prescribed in Regulations made b ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 28(2): A performer has the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit(a) the rebroadcasting, rental and distribution of a fixation of the performance,(b) ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 29: The rights of a performer in respect of the performance are protected for a period of seventy years starting from the end of the calendar year in wh ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 31: A performer has the right in dependent of the economic rights of the owner and even after the transfer of those rights,(a) to require to be identifi ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 33: A broadcasting organisation has the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit,(a) the rebroadcasting of its broadcast,(b) the fixation of its broadca ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 36: The rights of a broadcasting Organisation referred to in sections 33, and 34 are protected until the expiration of forty years from the date of maki ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 39(3): A publisher of work in the Republic may submit the work for registration by the Copyright Administrator after its publication and two copies of t ...

Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) as amended by the Copyright (Amendment), 2009 (Act 788) .

Section 39(4): Copyright protection of a work shall not be dependent on the registration of the work ...