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What does a performance of an authorial work include

67.—(1) A “performance” of an authorial work—
 * (a) includes—
 * (i) any mode of visual or aural presentation of the authorial work, whether the presentation is by—
 * (A) the use of any receiving apparatus;
 * (B) the exhibition of a film;
 * (C) the use of a record; or
 * (D) any other means; and
 * (ii) the delivery of the authorial work by way of a lecture, an address, a speech or a sermon; but
 * (b) does not include the communication of a work to the public.

(2) “Perform”, in relation to an authorial work, has a corresponding meaning.

(3) To avoid doubt, this section applies in relation to an adaptation of a literary, dramatic or musical work as it applies in relation to an authorial work.

Performance by operating receiving apparatus

68.—(1) This section applies where—
 * (a) any device or equipment is operated to communicate, directly or indirectly, visual images or sounds to a receiving apparatus; and
 * (b) those images are displayed, or those sounds are emitted, by the receiving apparatus.

(2) The operation of the device or equipment is not a performance.

(3) Insofar as the display of those images or the emission of those sounds is a performance of an authorial work, the performance is deemed to be given—