Copyright Act 1969 s 2

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s 2

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise Interprerequires— "adaptation" includes any of the following, that is to say— (a) in relation to a literary work, a version of the work (whether in its orginal language or a difterent language) in which it is converted into a dramatic work; (b) in relation to a dramatic work, a version of the work (whether in its original language or a different language) in which it is converted into a literary work: REPEALED BY ACT 332 wel 1/12/87 COPYRIGHT ACT 1969 An Act to revise and consolidate the law relating to copyright. [lst August 1969] [P.U.(B) 184/69.] BE IT ENACTED by the Duli Yang Maha Mulia Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong with the advice and thewan Rakyad in Para nf tasBembaed, Aindby the authority of the same, as follows: 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Copyright Act Short title, 1969. commencement and (2) This Act shall apply throughout Malaysia. application. (3! Ihis Act shall come into operation on a date to be appointed by the Minister by notification in the he mininter Gazette, and different dates may be so appointed for different provisions of this Act. (4) This Act shall apply in relation to works made before the commencement of this Act as it applies in relation to works made thereafter. 2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise Interprerequires tation. "adaptation" includes any of the following, that is to say- (a) in relation to a literary work, a version of the work (whether in its original language or a different language) in which it is converted into a dramatic work; (b) in relation to a dramatic work, a version of the work (whether in its original language or a different language) in which it is converted into a literary work; IS. 2] (c) in relation to a literary or dramatic work— (i) a translation of the work; (ii) a version of the work in which the story or action isconveyed wholly or mainly by means of pictures in a form suitable for reproduction in a book or in a newspaper, magazine or similar periodical; (d) in relation to a musical work, an arrangement or transcription of the work; "artistic work" means, irrespective of artistic quality, any of the following: or works similar thereto- (i) paintings, drawings. etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, engravings and prints; (ii) maps, plans, charts and diagrams; (iii) works of sculpture; (iv) photographs not comprised in a cinematograph film; (v) works of architecture in the form of buildings or models; and (Vi) works of artistic craftsmenship, including pictorial woven tissues and articles of applied handıcratts and ındustrial art; "author" means, in the case of a cinematograph film or, sound recording, the person by whom the arrangements for the making of the film or recording were undertaken, or, in the case of a broadcast transmitted from within any country, the person by whom the arrangements for the making of the transmission from within that country were undertaken; and in any other cases the person referred to in section 12 of this Act; "broadcast" means radio and/or television broadcast by wireless telegraphy or wire or both includes rebroadcast, and "broadcasting" shall be construed accordingly; "broadcasting service" means any service of radio and/or television broadcasts operated under the general direction and control of or under licence by the Government in any part of Malaysia; "building" includes any structure; IS. 2] "cinematograph film" means the first fixation of any sequence of visual images on material of any description (whether translucent or not) so as to be (a) of being shown as a moving picture; or (b) of being recorded on other material (whether translucent or not) by the use of which it can be so shown. and includes the sounds embodied in any sound track associated with a cinematograph film; "citizen" includes a person who, if he had been Malaysia and Malaysia Day in respect of East Malaysia; "communication to the public" includes, in addition to any live performance or delivery, any mode of visual or acoustic presentation, but does not include a broadcast or rebroadcast. and "communicate to the public" shall be construed accordingly; "copy" means a reproduction of a work in written form, in the form of a recording or cinematograph film, or in any other material form; "copyright" means copyright under this Act; "educational institution" shall have themeaning assigned thereto under the provisions of the Education 43 of 1961. Act 1961; "future copyright" means copyright which will or may come into existence in respect of any future work or class of works or other subject matter, or on the coming into operation of any provisions of this Act, or in any future event; "Government" means Government of Malaysia or Government of a State in Malaysia as the case may be; "licence" means a lawfully granted licence permitting the doing of an act controlled by copyright; IS. 2] ACT|10 "literary work" means. irrespective of literary quality, any of the following, or works similär thereto: (a) novels, stories and poetical works; (b) plays, stage directions, film scenarios and broadcasting scripts, (c) textbooks, treaties, histories, biographies, essays and articles; (d) encyclopaedias, dictionaries and other works of reference; (e) letters, reports and memoranda; (f) lectures, addresses and sermons, but does not include official texts of a legislative, administrative and legal nature nor official translations ofsuch texts; - "manuscript"; in relation to a work, means the original document embodying the work, whether written by hand or not; "Minister" means the Minister charged with the responsibility for trade and industry; "musical work" means any musical work, irrespective o1 musical quality, and includes works composed for musical accompaniment; "photograph" means any produce ofphotography or of any process akin to photography (other than a part of a cinematograph film); "prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made under this Act; "rebroadcast" means a simultaneous or subsequent broadcast by one broadcasting service of the broadcast of another broadcasting service, whether situated in Malaysia or abroad, and includes diffusion of such brodcast over wires, and "rebroadcasting" shall be construed accordingly; "reproduction" means the making of one or more copies, and includes, in the case of an artistic work, a version produced by converting the work into a threedimensional form or, if it is in three dimensions, by converting it into a two-dimensional form, reference to "reproducing" a work shall be construed accordingly; [S. 2-4] "sound recording" means the first fixation of a sequence of sounds capable of being perceived orally and of being reproduced, but does not include a soundtrack associated with a cinematograph film; "work" includes translations, adaptations, new versions or arrangements of pre-existing works, and anthologies or collections of works which,, by reasor of the selection and arrangement ot their content, present an original character; "work of joint authorship" means a work produced by the collaboration of two or more authors in which the contribution of each author is not separable from the contribution of the other author or authors. (2) For the purposes of this Act the following provisions shall apply with respect to publicationwork shall be deemed to have been published if a copy or copies thereof have been made available with the consent of the author in a manner sufficient to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the public; (b) where in the first instance a part only of a work is published, for the purposes th this aAch all a streaed work; (c) a publication in any country shall not be treated as being other than the first publication by reason only of an earlier publication elsewhere, if the two publications took place within a period of not more than thirty days.

Malay text (authoritative)

(1) Dalam Akta ini, melainkan jika kandungan Tafsiran. ayatnya menghendaki makna yang laın- "penyesuaian" termasuklah mana-mana yang berikut, iaitu- (a) berkenaan dengan sesuatu karya sastera, naskah karya itu (sama ada dalam bahasa asalnya atau dalam bahasa lain) dalam mana karya sastera itu ditukar menjadi karya drama; IS. 2] (b) berkenaan dengan sesuatu karya drama, naskah karya itu (sama ada dalam bahasa asalnya atau dalam bahasa lain) dalam mana karya drama itu ditukar menjadi karya sastera; (c) berkenaan dengan sesuatu karya sastera atau karya drama- (i) terjemahan bagi karya itu; (ii) naskah karya itu dalam mana cerita atau gerak-geri disampaikan kesemua sebahagian besarnya melalui dalam suatu bentuk yang sesual ambuk keluaran ulangan dalam buku, akhbar, majalah atau berkala yang seumpamanya; (d) berkenaan dengan sesuatu karya muzik, susunan atau tulisan karya itu; "karya seni" ertinya, dengan tidak mengira mutu seni, mana-mana yang berikut, atau karya-karya yang seumpamanya (i) lukisan-cat, lukisan, etching, litograf, ukir-kayu, ukir-pahat dan cetakan; (ii) peta, pelan, carta dan rajah; (iii) karya seniukir; (iv) gambarfoto yang tidak terkandung dalam filem wayang gambar; (v) karya senibina dalam bentuk bangunan atau model, dan (vi) karya pertukangan seni, termasuk tenunan halus bergambar barang-barang pertukangan tangan dan seni perusahaan; "pencipta" ertinya, mengenai sesuatu filem wayang gambar atau, rakaman bunyi, orang yang menguruskan pembuatan filem atau rakaman itu, atau, mengenai sesuatu siaran yang dipancar negeri, orang yang menguruskan pemancaran itu dari dalam negeri itu; dan mengenai apa-apa lain, orang yang dirujuk dalam seksyen 12 Akta ini; "siaran" ertinya siaran radio dan/atau talivisyen melalui taligraf wayarles atau wayar atau kedua-duanya dan termasuk siaran ulangan, dan "penyiaran" hendaklah diertikan sewajarnya; IS. 2] "perkhidmatan penyiaran" ertinya mana-mana perkhidmatan siaran radio dan/atau talivisyen yang dikendali di bawah arahan dan kawalan am Kerajaan atau yang diberi lesen oleh Kerajaan di mana-mana bahagian Malaysia; "bangunan" termasuklah apa-apa binaan; "filem wayang gambar" ertinya penetapan pertama apa-apa siri benda pandangan pada bahan-bahan dari apa-apa jenis (sama ada lutcahaya atau tidak) supaya boleh, dengan menggunakan bahan itu— (a) ditunjukkan sebagai gambar bergerak; atau (b) dirakamkan pada bahan-bahan lain (sama ada lutcahaya atau tidak) supaya dengan menggunakan bahan itu ia boleh ditunjukkan sedemikian, dan termasuklah bunyi-bunyi yang terkandung dalam apa-apa alur-bunyi berkaitan dengan filem wayang gambar; "warganegara" termasuklah seseorang, yang sekiranya masih hidup pala hari yang berkaitan, mungkin layak menjadi warganegara di bawah Perlembagaan Persekutuan; dan "hari berkaitan" ', mengenai Malaysia Barat, ertinya Hari Merdeka dan, mengenai Malaysia Timur, Hari Malaysia; "penyampaian kepada awam" termasuklah, selain daripada apa-apa pertunjukan atau penghantaran cara langsung, apa-apa cara persembahan pandangan atau bunyian, tetapi tidak termasuk sesuatu siaran atau siaran ulangan, dan "menyampaikan kepada awam" hendaklah diertikan sewajarnya; "salinan" ertinya keluaran ulangan sesuatu karya dalam bentuk bertulis, dalam bentuk rakaman atau bentuk filem wayang gambar, atau dalam apa-apa bentuk bahan lain; "hakcipta" ertinya hakcipta di bawah Akta ini; "yayasan pelajaran" hendaklah mempunyai erti yang diberi kepadanya di bawah peruntukan-peruntukan Akta Pelajaran 1961; 43 tahun 1961. IS. 2] "hakcipta yang akan datang" ertinya hakcipta yang akan atau mungkin wujud mengenai apa-apa karya atau kelas karya atau hal perkara lain pada masa yang datang, atau apabila mana-mana peruntukan Akta ini mula berkuatkuasa, atau dalam sesuatu peristiwa yang akan datang; "Kerajaan" ertinya Kerajaan Malaysia atau Kerajaan bagı sesebuah Negeri dalam Malaysia, mengikut mana yang berkenaan; "lesen" ertinya lesen yang diberi dengan sahnya membenarkan pelakuan sesuatu perbuatan yang dikawal oleh hakcipta; "karya sastera" ertinya, dengan tidak mengira mutu sastera, mana-mana yang berikut, atau karya-karya yang seumpamanya: (a) novel, cerita dan karya syair; (b) lakunan, arahan-arahan pentas, lakunan filem dan skrip siaran; (c) buku teks, buku ilmiah, sejarah, riwayat hidup, karangan dan makalah; (d) ensi"-lopedia, kamus dan karya rujukan lain; (e) surat, laporan dan memorandam; V) syarahan, ucapan dan khutbah, tetapi tidak termasuk teks rasmi dari jenis perundangan, pentadbiran dan undang-undang atau terjemahan rasmi teks itu; "manuskrip" berkenaan dengan sesuatu karya, ertinya suratan asal mengandungi karya itu, sama ada ditulis dengan tangan atau tidak; "Menteri" ertinya Menteri yang bertanggungjawab bagi perdagangan dan perindustrian; "karya muzik" ertinya mana-mana karya muzik, dengan tidak mengira mutu muzık, dan termasuklah karya yang digubah untuk dısertat dengan muzık; "gambarfoto" ertinya apa-apa keluaran gambarfoto lau darı apa-apa proses yang seakan-akan san engan gambarioto kecuan sebanagıan nem wavar gambar); [S. 2] HAKCPTA "ditetapkan" ertinya ditetapkan oleh peraturan-peraturan yang dibuat di bawah Akta ini; "siaran ulangan" ertinya siaran serentak atau siaran kemudian oleh satu perkhidmatan penyiaran akan sıaran suatu perkhidmatan penyiaran lain, sama ada terletak dalam Malaysia atau di luar negeri, dan termasuklah penyibaran siaran itu melalui wayar, dan "penyiaran ulangan" hendaklah diertikan sewajarnya; "keluaran ulangan" ertinya pembuatan satu salinan atau lebih dan termasuklah, mengenai sesuatu karya seni, naskah yang dikeluarkan dengan menukar karya itu kepada suatu bentuk tiga-dimensa atau, jika karya itu dalam bentuk tiga dimensa, dengan menukarkannya kepada bentuk dua-dimensa, dan rujukan mengenai "mengeluar-ulang" sesuatu karya hendaklah diertikan sewajarnya; "rakaman bunyi" ertinya penetapan pertama sesuatu siri bunyi yang boleh didengar secara langsung dan dıkeluar-ulang, tetapi tidak termasuk sesuatu alur-bunyi berkaitan dengan filem wayang gambar; "karya" termasuklah terjemahan, penyesuaian, naskah baru atau susunan karya yang wujud, dan antoloji atau kumpulan karya yang, oleh kerana pemilihan dan penyusunan tentang ısınya, merupakan suatu watak "karya penciptaan bersama" ertinya karya yang dikeluarkan dengan kerjasama dua orang pencipta atau lebih, dalam mana sumbangan tiap-tiap seorang pencıpta itu tidak terpisah daripada sumbangan pencipta atau pencipta-penciptayang lain itu. (2) Bagi maksud Akta ini, peruntukan-peruntukan berikut hendaklah dipakai mengenai terbitan.- (a) sesuatu karya hendaklah disifatkan sebagai telah diterbitkan jika satu atau beberapa salinannya telah diadakan dengan persetujuan pencıptanya secara yang cukup untuk memenuhi kehendak-kehendak awam, yang berpatutan; IS: 2-4] (b) jika pada mula-mulanya hanya sebahagian daripada sesuatu karya sahaja diterbitkan, maka asingan; va hg ain cing bahagian itu hendaklah bagi maksud Akta ini, disifatkan sebagai suatu karya ber- (c) sesuatu terbitan dalam mana-mana negeri tidak boleh disifatkan sebagai suatu terbitan yang lain daripada terbitan pertama semata-mata oleh sebab adanya suatu terbitan yang lebih awal di sesuatu tempat lain, jika kedua-dua buah terbitan itu diterbitkan dalam tempoh tıdak lebih daripada tiga puluh hari.

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Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

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