Copyright Act, 1978 (Act No. 98 of 1978)

Chapter 1 : Copyright in Original Works

6. Nature of copyright in literary or musical works
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(1)Copyright in a literary or musical work vests the exclusive right to do or to authorise the doing of any of the following acts in the Republic:
(a)Reproducing the work in any manner or form;
(b)publishing the work if it was hitherto unpublished;
(c)performing the work in public;
(d)broadcasting the work;
(e)causing the work to be transmitted in a diffusion service, unless such service transmits a lawful broadcast, including the work, and is operated by the original broadcaster;
(f)making an adaptation of the work;

(g)        doing, in relation to an adaptation of the work, any of the acts specified in relation to the work in paragraphs (a) to (e) inclusive.