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Rh (2) For the purposes of this Act, a publication of a work under two or more names shall not be taken to be pseudonymous unless all those names are pseudonyms.

Reproduction of works

15.—(1) For the purposes of this Act, reproduction, in the case of a literary, dramatic or musical work, includes a reproduction in the form of a sound recording or cinematograph film of the work, and any record embodying such a recording and any copy of such a film shall be deemed to be a reproduction of the work.

(2) Subsection (1) shall apply in relation to an adaptation of a work in like manner as it applies in relation to a work.

(3) For the purposes of this Act, an artistic work shall be deemed to have been reproduced—
 * (a) in the case of a work in a two-dimensional form,—if a version of the work is produced in a three-dimensional form; or
 * (b) in the case of a work in a three-dimensional form,—if a version of the work is produced in a two-dimensional form,

and the version of the work so produced shall be deemed to be a reproduction of the work.

(4) Subsection (3) shall have effect subject to Division 9 of Part III.

Provisions relating to the making of a work or other subject-matter

16.—(1) A reference in this Act to the time when, or the period during which, a literary, dramatic or musical work was made shall be read as a reference to the time when, or the period during which, as the case may be, the work was first reduced to writing or to some other material form.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, a literary, dramatic or musical work that exists in the form of sounds embodied in an article or thing shall be deemed to have been reduced to a material form and to have been so reduced at the time when those sounds were embodied in that article or thing.