# Dramatic and Musical Performers' Protection Act 1958, Section 8: Interpretation


(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/44/section/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/dramatic-and-musical-performers-protection-act-1958/section-8
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