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  "future copyright” and “prospective owner” have the meanings assigned to them by section thirty-seven of this Act;

"judicial proceeding” means a proceeding before any court, tribunal or person having by law power to hear, receive and examine evidence on oath;

"literary work” includes any written table or compilation;

"manuscript”, in relation to a work, means the original document embodying the work, whether written by hand or not;

"performance” includes delivery, in relation to lectures, addresses, speeches and sermons, and in general, subject to the provisions of subsection (5) of this section, includes any mode of visual or acoustic presentation, including any such presentation by the operation of wireless telegraphy apparatus, or by the exhibition of a cinematography film, or by the use of a record, or by any other means, and references to performing a work or an adaptation of a work shall be construed accordingly;

"photograph” means any product of photography or of any process akin to photography, other than a part of a cinematography film, and “author”, in relation to a photograph, means the person who, at the time when the photograph is taken, is the owner of the material on which it is taken;

"qualified person” has the meaning assigned to it by section one of this Act;

"record” means any disc, tape, perforated roll or other device in which sounds are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other instrument) of being automatically reproduced therefrom, and references to a record of a work or other subject matter are references to a record (as herein defined) by means of which it can be performed;

"reproduction”, in the case of a literary, dramatic or musical work, includes a reproduction in the form of a record or of a cinematography film, and, in the case of an artistic work, includes a version produced by converting the work into a three-dimensional form, or, if it is in three dimensions, by converting it into a two dimensional form, and references to reproducing a work shall be construed accordingly;

"sculpture” includes any cast or model made for purposes of sculpture; 64