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[Pt. I, S. 3]
10
Act 332

“broadcasting service” means any service of radio or television broadcast, operated under the general direction and control of or under license by the Government, in any part of Malaysia;

“building” includes any structure;

“citizen” includes a person who, if he had been alive on the relevant day, would have qualified for citizenship under the Federal Constitution;

“communication by cable” means the operation by which signals are guided by wire, beam or other conduction device, to the public or any section thereof, for reception, and “communicate by cable” shall be construed accordingly;

“communication to the public” means the making of a work available to the public and includes, in addition to any live performance or delivery, and mode of visual or accoustic presentation; and “communicate to the public” shall be construed accordingly;

“computer program” means an expression, in any language, code or notation, of a set of instructions (whether with or without related information) intended to cause a device having an information processing capability to perform a particular function either directly or after either or both of the following:

(a) conversion to another language, code or notation;
(b) reproduction in a different material form;

“Controller”, “Deputy Controller” and “Assistant Controller” means respectively the Controller of Copyright, the Deputy Controller of Copyright and an Assistant Controller of Copyright appointed under section 5(1);

“copy” means a reproduction of a work in written form, in the form of a recording or film, or in any other material form;

“copyright” means copyright under this Act;