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[31st August, 1983.]

it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be called the Copyright (Amendment) Act 1983.

(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

2. Throughout the Copyright Act, 1957 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), unless otherwise expressly provided, for the word “radio-diffusion”, wherever it occurs, the word “broadcast” shall be substituted.

3. In section 2 of the principal Act,—
 * (a) after clause (d), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:—
 * ‘(dd) “broadcast” means communication to the public—
 * (i) by any means of wireless diffusion, whether in any one or more of the forms of signs, sounds or visual images; or
 * (ii) by wire,
 * and includes a re-broadcast’;
 * (b) after clause (f), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:—
 * ‘(ff) “communication to the public” means communication to the public in whatever manner, including communication through satellite;’;
 * (c) for clause (l), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—
 * ‘(l) “Indian work” means a literary, dramatic or musical work,—
 * (i) the author of which is a citizen of India; or
 * (ii) which is first published in India; or
 * (iii) the author of which, in the case of an unpublished work, is, at the time of the making of the work, a citizen of India;’;
 * (d) clause (v) shall be omitted.