Page:Copyright Act 1978 from Government Gazette.djvu/2

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30 JUNE 1978

Rh

To regulate copyright and to provide for matters incidental thereto.

(Afrikaans text signed by the State President.) (Assented to 20 June 1978.)

E IT ENACTED by the State President, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:―

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1. (1) In this Act, unless the content otherwise indicates―

“adaptation”, in relation to―

a literary work, includes―

in the case of a non-dramatic work, a version of the work in which it is converted into a dramatic work;

in the case of a dramatic work, a version of the work in which it is converted into a non-dramatic work;

a translation of the work; or

a version of the work in which the story or action is conveyed wholly or mainly by means of pictures in a form suitable for reproduction in a book or in a newspaper, magazine or similar periodical;

a musical work, includes any arrangement or transcription of the work, if such arrangement or transcription has an original creative character;

an artistic work, includes a transformation of the work in such a manner that the original or substantial features thereof remain recognizable; (i)

“arbitration” means arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1965 (Act No. 42 of 1965); (iii)

“artistic work” means, irrespective of the artistic quality thereof―

paintings, sculptures, drawings, engravings and photographs;

works of architecture, being either buildings or models of buildings; or