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Section 8 Interpretation

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(1)

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say.—

  • “broadcast ” means broadcast by wireless telegraphy (within the meaning of the 12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 54.Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1949), whether by way of sound broadcasting or of television;

  • “cinematograph film ” means any print, negative, tape or other article on which a performance of a dramatic or musical work or part thereof is recorded for the purposes of visual reproduction;

  • “performance of a dramatic or musical work ” includes any performance, mechanical or otherwise, of any such work, being a performance rendered or intended to be rendered audible by mechanical or electrical means;

  • “performers ”, in the case of a mechanical performance, means the persons whose performance is mechanically reproduced;

  • “record ” means any record or similar contrivance for reproducing sound, including the sound-track of a cinematograph film.

(2)

Any reference in this Act to the making of a cinematograph film is a reference to the carrying out of any process whereby a performance of a dramatic or musical work or part thereof is recorded for the purposes of visual reproduction.