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Act of 1911.
THE COPYRIGHT ACT.
"Engravings" include etchings, lithographs, wood-cuts, prints, and other similar works, not being photographs;
"Photograph" includes photo-lithograph and any work produced by any process analogous to photography;
"Cinematograph" includes any work produced by any process analogous to cinematography;
"Collective work" means——
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(a) an encyclopædia, dictionary, year book, or similar work; (b) a newspaper, review, magazine, or similar periodical;
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(c) any work written in distinct parts by different authors, or in which works or parts of works of different authors are incorporated;
"Infringing", when applied to a copy of a work in which copyright subsists, means any copy, including any colourable imitation, made, or imported in contravention of the provisions of this Act;
"Performance" means any acoustic representation of a work and any visual representation of any dramatic action in a work including such a representation made by means of any mechanical instrument;
"Delivery", in relation to a lecture, includes delivery by means of any mechanical instrument;
"Plate" includes any stereotype or other plate, stone, block, mould, matrix, transfer, or negative used or intended to be used for printing or reproducing copies of any work, and any matrix or other appliance by which records, perforated rolls or other contrivances for the acoustic representation of the work are or are intended to be made;
"Lecture" includes address, speech, and sermon;
"Self-governing dominion" means the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, and Newfoundland.
(2) For the purposes of this Act (other than those relating to infringements of copyright), a work shall not be deemed to be published or performed in public, and a lecture shall not be deemed to be delivered in public, if published, performed in public, or delivered in public, without the consent or acquiescence of the author, his executors, administrators or assigns.