{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dramatic-and-musical-performers-protection-act-1958/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dramatic-and-musical-performers-protection-act-1958/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/44",
  "legislation_title": "Dramatic and Musical Performers' Protection Act 1958",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dramatic-and-musical-performers-protection-act-1958",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say.—\n“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;\n“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;\n“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;\n“performers ”, in the case of a mechanical performance, means the persons whose performance is mechanically reproduced;\n“record ” means any record or similar contrivance for reproducing sound, including the sound-track of a cinematograph film.\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/44/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:52.097801+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}