Section 10 Copyright Act

Section 10 Copyright Act 2022 is about Nature of copyright in artistic works. It is under Part I (Objectives, Scope and Subsistence of Copyright) of the Act.

(1) Subject to the exceptions specified in Part II of this Act, copyright in an artistic work shall be the exclusive right to do and authorise the doing of any of the following acts —
(a) reproduce the work ;
(b) publish the work ;
(c) include the work in an audiovisual work ;
(d) broadcast the work ;
(e) communicate the work to the public ;

(f ) make the work available to the public by wire or wireless means in such a way that members of the public are able to access the work from a place and at a time individually chosen by them ;
(g) make any adaptation of the work ; and
(h) do in relation to an adaptation of the work any of the acts specified in relation to the work under subsection (1)(a), (b) and (c).

(2) The protection of a three dimensional work of artistic craftsmanship shall not extend to its functional aspects.

(3) Copyright in a work of architecture shall also include the exclusive right to control the erection of any building, which reproduces the whole or a substantial part of the work either in its original form or in any form recognisably derived from the original, but not the right to control the reconstruction in the same style as the original of a building to which the copyright relates.