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NO. 2 OF 1987


(3) For the purposes of this Act—

(a) a sound recording shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the first record embodying the recording was produced; and
(b) the maker of the sound recording is the person who owned that record at that time.

(4) For the purposes of this Act—

(a) a reference to the making of a cinematograph film shall be read as a reference to the doing of the things necessary for the production of the first copy of the film; and
(b) the maker of the cinematograph film is the person by whom the arrangements necessary for the making of the film were undertaken.

(5) For the purposes of this Act, a television broadcast or sound broadcast shall be deemed to have been made by the person by whom, at the time when, and from the place from which—

(a) the visual images or sounds in question, or both, as the case may be, are broadcast; or
(b) in the case of a television broadcast or sound broadcast made by the technique known as direct broadcasting by satellite, the visual images or sounds in question, or both, as the case may be, are transmitted to the satellite transponder.

Computer storage

17. References in this Act to the reduction of any work or of an adaptation of a work to a material form, or to the reproduction of any work or of an adaptation of a work in a material form, shall include references to the storage of that work or adaptation in a computer.

Sound recordings and records

18.—(1) For the purposes of this Act, sounds embodied in a soundtrack associated with visual images forming part of a cinematograph film shall be deemed not to be a sound recording.