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Loi de 2004 portant modification de la loi sur le droit d’auteur (loi n° 2 de 2004), Bahamas

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Détails Détails Année de version 2009 Dates Entrée en vigueur: 1 octobre 2009 Accepté: 24 juin 2004 Type de texte Principales lois de propriété intellectuelle Sujet Droit d'auteur Notes The Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2004 (Act No. 2 of 2004) introduces the following amendments to the Copyright Act (the principal Act): -Amending sections 2, 9, 12, 22, 75, 83, and 132; -Adding a new section 22A after section 22 on 'Future copyright'.

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Supplement Part I

OFFICIAL GAZETTE

THE BAHAMAS PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

NASSAU 24th June, 2004 Acr /{o .a_ No. 25

No.2 of2004

AN ACT TO AMEND THE COPYRIGHT ACT

[Date of Assent-24th June, 2004]

Enacted by the Parliament of The Bahamas

Short title 1.(1) This Act, which amends the Copyright Act, may be cited

and as the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2004.

commence- (2) This Act shall come into operation on such day as the

ment. , I. Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, appoint. O<f - ft:!t0"f . Ch. 323.

Amendment 2. Subsection (1) of section 2 of the principal Act is amended-

of section 2 (a) in the: insertion in th i1 appropriate alphabetical order

of principal of the following definitions -

Act. "broiidcast" means the transmission by wireless telegraphy

of visual images, sounds or other information for

reception by or presentation to members of the public

and references to "broadcasting" shall be construed

accordingly;

"cable programme'' .means any item included in a cable

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programme service;

"cable programme service" means a service which consists

wholly or mainly in sending visual images, sounds

or:.other.information t0r recePtion by or presentation

to members of the public by means of a

telecommunications sys_tem other than wireless

. telegraphy; however the term does not include -

(a) service or part of a service of which it is an

essential feature that while visual images,

sounds or other information are being

conveyed by the person providing the service

there will or may be sent from each place of

reception, by means of the same system or (as

the case may be) the same part of it,

information (other than signals seni for the'

- operation or control of the service) tO;

reception by the person providing the service

or adler persons receiving it;

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(b) a service run for the purpose of a business

where ­

(i) no person except the person carrying

on the business is concerned in the

control of the apparams comprised in

the system;

(ii) the visual images, sounds or other

information are conveyed by the system

solely for purposes internal to the

rulllling of the business and not by way

of rendering a service or providing

amenities for others; and

(iii) the system is not connected to any other

telecommunications systenl;

(c) a service run by a single individual where­

(i) all the apparatus comprised in the

system is under his control;

(ii) the visual images, sounds or other

information conveyed by the system are

conveyed solely for domestic purposes

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(iii)

(d)

(i)

(ii)

(e)

of his; and

the system is not connected to any other

telecommunications system;

services where-

all the apparatus comprised in the

system is situated in, or connects,

premises which are single occupation;

and

the system is not connected to any

other telecommunications system,

other than services operated as part of

the amenities provided for residents or

inmates of premises run as a business;

and

services which are, or to the extent that they

are, run for persons providing broadcasting or

cable programme services or providing

programmes for such services;

"electronic" means acmated by electric, magnetic, electro­

i:nagnetic, electro-chemical or electro-mechanical

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energy, and "in electronic form" means in a form

usable only by electronic means;

·''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 other future event, and "prospective owner" shall

be construed accordingly and, in relation to any such

copyright, includes a person prospectively entitled

thereto by virtue of such an agreement as is

mentioned in subsection (1) of section 22A;

"telecommunications systemu means a system for conveying

visual images, sounds or other information by

electronic means;

"wireless telegraphy" means the sending of electro­

magnetic energy over paths not provided by a

material substance construed or arranged for

that purpose;".

(b) by the deletion of the definition of "secondary

transmission" and the replacement thereof of

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the following ­

"secondary transmission" means the simultaneous

' transmission of a primary transmission, ·unless

delayed for technical reasons, but does not include

any transmission over the Internet or any similar

means of online delivery without the consent of the

copyright owner;".

Amendment 3. Subsection (1) of section 9 of the principal Act is amended by the

of section repeal and replacement of paragraphs (d) and (e) with the following paragraphs

9 of the "(d) in the case of a literary, musical, dramatic and

principal choreographic, and motion pictures and other audiovisual

Act. works, to perform the copyright work publicly;

(e) in the case of a literary, musical, dramatic and

choreographic, artistic works, including the individual

sequence images of a motion picture audiovisual work, to

display the copyright work publicly; and

(!) to broadcast the copyright work or include it in a

cable programme service.".

Amendment 4. Subsection (4) of section 12 of the principal Act is repealed

of section and replaced as follows ­

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12 of the

principal

Act.

Amendment

of section

22 of the

principal

Act.

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"(4) In this section­

"derogatory treatment" means, in relation to a work,

any distortion, mutilation or other modification of

that work which would be prejudicial to its author's

reputation.".

5. Subsection (2) of section 22 of the principal Act is repealed and

replaced as follows ­

(2) A licensee under an exclusive licence shall have the same

rights against a successor in title who is bound by the licence as he has against

the person granting the licence.".

Insertion The principal Act is amended by the insertion inm1ediately after

of new section 22 of the following section ­

section 22A "Future 22A. (1) Where by an agreement made

into the copy­ in relation to any furure copyright, and signed

principal right. by or on behalf nf the prospective owner of the

Act. copyright, the prospective owner purports to assign

the furure copyright (in whole or in part) to another

person (in this subsection referred to as "the

assignee"), then, if on the coming into existence of

the copyright, the assignee or a person claiming

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under him would, apart from this subsection, be

entitled as against all other persons to require the

copyright to be vested in him (in whole or in part, as

the case may be), the copyright shall, on its coming

into existence, vest in the assignee or his successor in

title accordingly by virtue of this subsection and

without further assurance.

(2) Where, at the time when any

copyright comes into existence, the person who, if he

were then living, would be entitled to the copyright is

dead, the copyright shall devolve as if it had subsisted

immediately before his death and he had then been

the owner of the copyright.

(3) Where a licence is granted by a

prospective owner of arty copyright, that licence shall

be binding upon every successor in title to his interest

in the copyright, except a purchaser in good faith for

valuable consideration and without notice (actual or

constructive) of th.e licence or a person deriving title

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Amendment

of section

75 of the

principal

Act.

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Amendment

of section

83 of the

principal

Act.

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from such a purchaser; and references in this Act, in

relation to any copyright, to the doing of anything

with or without (as the case may be), the licence of

the prospective owner of the copyright shall be

construed accordingly.".

7. Section 75 of the principal Act is amended ­

(a) in paragraph (b), by the insertion innnediately after the

word "if" of the words "and to the extent that";-and

(b) by the repeal of paragraph (f) and the re-lettering of

paragraphs (g) and (h) as paragraphs (f) and (g)

respectively; and

(c) in the new paragraph (f), by the insertion of the word "the"

after the words "directed to" occurring therein.

8. Section 83 of the principal Act is amended by renmnbering the

section as subsection (1) and by the insertion thereafter of the following ­

(2) For the purposes of this section "transmiSsion" means

conmmnication and reception over the air and not encrypted.

(3) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that

this section shall not apply to the Internet.".

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1\.mendment 9. Section 132 of the principal Act is amended by renumbering the

of section section as subsection (I) and by the insertion thereafter of the following­

132 of the (2) The Performers• Protection Act is repealed.".

principal

Act.

Ch..348

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Edition.


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