Section 9 Copyright Act

Section 9 Copyright Act 2022 is about Nature of copyright in literary and musical works. It is under Part I (Objectives, Scope and Subsistence of Copyright) of the Act.

Subject to the exceptions specified in Part II of this Act, copyright in a literary or musical 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) perform the work in public ;

(d) produce, reproduce, perform or publish any translation of the work ;
(e) make any audiovisual work or a record in respect of the work ;
(f) distribute to the public, for commercial purposes, copies of the work, through sale or other transfer of ownership provided the work has not been subject to distribution authorised by the owner;

(g) broadcast the work ;
(h) communicate the work to the public ;
(i) 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 independently chosen by them ;

(j) make any adaptation of the work ; and
(k) do in relation to a translation or an adaptation of the work, any of the acts specified in relation to the work specified under this section.