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 556 "cinematograph" includes any work produced by any process analogous to cinematography;

"pirated," when applied to a copy of a work in which copyright subsists, means any copy made without the consent or acquiescence of the owner of the copyright, or imported contrary to this Act;

"publication" means the issue of copies to the public and does not include the performance in public of a dramatic or musical work, the delivery in public of a lecture, the exhibition in public of an artistic work, or the construction of an architectural work of art;

"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, matrix, transfer, or negative used or intended to be used for printing or reproducing copies of any work, and any matrix or other appliance by which records, perforated rolls or other contrivance for the acoustic representation of the work are made or intended to be made;

"lecture" includes address, speech and sermon;

"copyright" means the sole right to produce or reproduce any original literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or any substantial part thereof in any material form whatsoever and in any language; to perform, or in the case of a lecture to deliver, the work or any substantial part thereof in public; if the work is unpublished, to publish the work; and shall include the sole right,—

(a) in the case of a dramatic work, to convert it into a novel or other non-dramatic work;

(b) in the case of a novel or other non-dramatic work, to convert it into a dramatic work, either by way of multiplication of copies of by way of performance in public;