Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsInterpretation
| 6. For the purposes of this Part- "broadcasting " means the transmitting, for reception by the general public by wireless or by means of wire, of sounds or of images and sounds; "folklore" means all literary and artistic works created in Sri Lanka by various communities, passed on from generation to generation and constituting one of the basic elements of the traditional cultural heritage; "performance " means a public performance or delivery of a work by any means whatsoever; "published works" means works published in any manner whatsoever with the consent of their authors provided that the number of copies so published are sufficient to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the public, having regard to the nature of the work ; " reproduction " means the making of one or more copies of a literary, artistic or scientific work, in any material form including any sound or visual recording; "works first published" means works first published in Sri Lanka, or works first published abroad but also published in Sri Lanka within thirty days from the earlier publication; "work of joint authorship" means a work created by two or more authors in collaboration, in which the individual contributions are indistinguishable from each other. |