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 1914.]                    Copyright. 17 ( The First Schedule. — Portions of the Copyright Act,1911,applicable in British India.)

(7) For the purposes of this Act, " copyright " means the sole right to produce or reproduce the work or any substantial part thereof in any material form whatsoever, to perform, or in the case of a lecture to deliver, the work or any substantial part thereof in public ; if the work is unpublished, to publish the work or any substantial part thereof ; and shall include the sole right — (a) to produce, reproduce, perform, or publish any translation of the work ; (i) in the case of a dramatic work, to convert it into a novel or other non-dramatic work ; {c) in the case of a novel or other non-dramatic work, or of an artistic work, to convert it into a dramatic work, by way of per- formance in public or otherwise ; (d) in the case of a literary dramatic or musical work, to make any record, perforated roll, cinematograph film, or other contrivance by means of which the work may be mechanically performed or delivered ; 1 and to authorise any such acts as aforesaid. (5) For the purposes of this Act, publication, in relation to any work, means the issue of copies of the work to the public, and does not include the performance in public of a dramatic or musical work, the delivery in public of a lecture, the exhi- bition in public of an artistic work, or the con- struction of an architectural work of art, but, for the purposes of this provision, the* issue of photographs and engravings of works of sculpture and architectural works of art shall not be deemed to be publication of such works. 2. (i) Copyright in a work shall be deemed to be infringed by any person who, without the consent 0 °° pyilg of the owner of the copyright, does anything the sole right