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the broadcasting thereof;

the term of copyright shall continue to subsist for a period of fifty years from the end of the year in which the first of the said acts is done ;”; and

by the addition to subsection (2) of the following paragraph:

published editions, fifty years from the end of the year in which the edition is first published. ”.

4. Section 4 of the principal Act is hereby amended―

by the deletion at the end of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of the word “or”; and

by the addition to subsection (1) of the following paragraph:

being a published edition, is first published in the Republic, ”.

5. Section 5 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (4) of the following subsection: “(4) Copyright conferred by this section on a cinematograph film, photograph, sound recording, broadcast, [or] programme-carrying signal or published edition shall be subject to the same term of copyright provided for in section 3 for a similar work.”

6. Section 8 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the addition to subsection (1) of the following paragraph:

importing (other than importing for the private and domestic use of the importer), selling, letting, offering or exposing for sale or hire by way of trade, or distributing, directly or indirectly, a reproduction or an adaptation of the film. ”.

7. Section 9 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (b) of the following paragraph:

importing (other than importing for the private and domestic use of the importer), selling, letting, offering or exposing for sale or hire by way of trade, or distributing, directly or indirectly, a reproduction of the sound recording. ”.

8. The following section is hereby inserted in the principal Act after section 11: “Nature of copyright in published editions. 11A. Copyright in a published edition vests the exclusive right to make or to authorize the making of a reproduction of the edition in any manner. ”.

9. The following section is hereby inserted in the principal Act after section 19: “General exceptions from protection of published editions. 19A. The provisions of sections 12 (1), (2), (4), (5), (8) and (12) shall mutatis mutandis apply with reference to published editions. ”.

10. Section 26 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the addition of the following subsections: “ (9) In any civil or criminal proceedings by virtue of this Chapter with regard to the alleged infringement of the copyright in a cinematograph film registered in terms of the Registration of Copyright in Cinematograph Films Act, 1977 (Act No. 62 of 1977), it shall be presumed―

that every party to those proceedings had knowledge of the particulars entered in the register of copyright mentioned in section 15 of the said Act from the date of the