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 BRITISH COPYRIGHT ACT, 191 1 543

(c) any work written in distinct parts by different authors, or in which works or parts of works of differ- ent authors are incorporated ;

"Infringing," when appUed to a copy of a work in which copyright subsists, means any copy, including any colourable imitation, made, or imported in contra- vention of the provisions of this Act;

"Performance" means any acoustic representation of a work and any visual representation of any dramatic action in a work, including such a representation made by means of any mechanical instrument;

" Delivery," in relation to a lecture, includes delivery by means of any mechanical instrument;

"Plate" includes any stereotype or other plate, stone, block, mould, matrix, transfer, or negative used or in- tended to be used for printing or reproducing copies of any work, and any matrix or other appliance by which records, perforated rolls or other contrivances for the acoustic representation of the work are or are intended to be made;

"Lecture" includes address, speech, and sermon;

"Self-governing dominion" means the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Domin- ion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, and Newfoundland.

(2) For the purposes of this Act (other than those relat- ing to infringements of copyright), a work shall not be deemed to be published or performed in public, and a lec- ture shall not be deemed to be delivered in public, if pub- lished, performed in public, or delivered in public, without the consent or acquiescence of the author, his executors administrators or assigns.

(3) For the purposes of this Act, a work shall be deemed to be first published within the parts of His Majesty's do- minions to which this Act extends, notwithstanding that it has been published simultaneously in some other place, un- less the publication in such parts of His Majesty's domin- ions as aforesaid is colourable only and is not intended to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the public, and a