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 4 transmission from within that country were undertaken, and in the case of 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, and in any other case it includes the author, composer, painter, sketcher, sculptor, turner and engraver;

"broadcast" means a sound or visual broadcast by wireless telegraphy or wire or both and includes rebroadcast;

"broadcasting authority" means the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation and any other person authorized under the Wireless Telegraphy Law, to operate a broadcast trasmitting station on the territory of the Republic;

"building includes any structure;

"cinematograph film" means the first and constant fixation of a sequence of visual images capable of being shown as a moving picture and of being the subject of reproduction and includes the recording of a soundtrack associated with the cinematograph film;

"communication to the public" includes, in addition to any live performance or delivery, every mode of visual or acoustic presentation, including a presentation by means of apparatus for receiving broadcasts, but does not include a broadcast, and "communicate to the public" shall be construed accordingly;

"copy" means a reproduction in written form, in the form of a recording, cinematograph film, or in any other material form, so however that an object shall not be taken to be a copy of an architectural work unless the object is a building or model;

"copyright" means copyright provided for under this Law;

"licence" means a lawfully granted licence permitting the performance of an act controlled by copyright;

"literary work" means, irrespective of literary quality, any of the following, or works similar thereto:
 * (a) novels, stories and poetical works;
 * (b) plays, stage directions, film scenarios and broadcasting scripts;
 * (c) textbooks, treatises, historical works, biographies, essays and articles;
 * (d) encyclopaedias and dictionaries;
 * (e) letters, reports and memoranda;
 * (f) lectures, addresses and sermons, not including speeches delivered from a pulpit and addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Courts;

"Minister" means the Minister of Commerce and Industry;

"musical work" means any musical work, irrespective of musical quality;