- THE COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE, 1962
- CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY
- CHAPTER II COPYRIGHT, OWNERSHIP OF COPYRIGHT AND THE RIGHTS OF THE OWNER
- CHAPTER III TERM OF COPYRIGHT
- CHAPTER V RIGHTS IN PUBLISHED EDITIONS OF WORKS
- CHAPTER VI PERFORMING RIGHTS SOCIETIES
- CHAPTER VII LICENCES
- CHAPTER VIII REGISTRATION OF COPYRIGHT
- CHAPTER IX COPYRIGHT OFFICE, REGISTRAR OF COPYRIGHT AND COPYRIGHT BOARD
- CHAPTER X DELIVERY OF BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES
- CHAPTER XI INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT
- CHAPTER XII INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT
- CHAPTER XIII CIVIL REMEDIES
- CHAPTER XIV OFFENCES AND PENALTIES
- CHAPTER XV APPEALS
- CHAPTER XVI MISCELLANEOUS
THE COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE, 1962
ORDINANCE NO. XXXIV OF 1962 (2nd June,1962).
An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to Copyright.
Whereas it is expedient to amend and consolidate the law relating to Copy
right;
Now, THEREFORE, in pursuance of the proclamation of the seventh day of October, 1958, and in exercise of all powers enabling him in that behalf, the President is pleased to make and promulgate the following Ordinance:
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY.
1. Short title, extent and commencement.-(J) This Ordinance may be called the Copyright Ordinance, 1962. ~. Definition.-In this Ordinance, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, (iii) in relation to a literary or dramatic work, any abridgement of the work or any version of the work in which the story or action is conveyed wholly or mainly by means of pictures in a form suitable for reproduction in a book, or in a newspaper, magazine or similar periodical; and -. (iii) any other work' of artistic craftsmanship;' (iii) in relation to an artistic work other than a photograph, the artist; \ U> "bui1~g" includes any structure;
(k) "calendar year" means the year commencing on the 1st day of lanuary:
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,.' (I) "cinematographic work" l11~ns a ly sequence of visual i~ges fixed {;:J J,: . on material of any descril1Upn (wl1ether translucent or not) 80 as to be " .' c.:.,:~'; capable of being shown ~I , ploviJtgpicture and ofbeing the ~ubject or
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(m) "copy" means a reproduction in a written form or in the form of a
"I, .': . sfffind recording or cinematograshic work or in any other material ..fohn; whether in two or three di mensions;
. (It) "copyright" .means copyright under this Ordinance; • (~). ~~~liverl'''.~ relation to .a, lecture, includes delivery by mealS or.any . m.wcal Instrument or bybrop.d~s.t. Qr teleqst;· . ,. ) (iii) in relation to a record, any record embodying the same recording
either in its original form or in any form derived from the original;and .
(;v) in relation to a programme in which a broadcast reproduction right subsists under section 24, a cinematographic work or a record, recording the whole programme or: a part thereof,
if such reproduction, copy or record is made or imported iA constravention of any of the provisions of this Ordinance; (za) "newspaper" means a newspaper g,s defined in section 2 (n of the printing Presses and Publications (Declaration and Registration) Act, 1973 (XXIII of 1973), printed or 'published in conformity with the provisions of part III of the said Act;
(zb) "performance" includes any mode of visual or acoustic presentation, including any such presentation by the exhibition of a cinematographic work, or by means of broadcast, or by the use of a record, or by any other means and, in relation to a lecture, includes the delivery of such lecture ;
(zc) "performing right society" means a society, association or other body, whether incorporated or not, which carries on in Bangladesh the business of issuing or granting licences for the performance in Bangladesh of any works in which copyright' subsists;
(zd) "photograph" includes photo-lithograph and any work produced by any process analogous to photography but does not include any part of a cinematographic work;
(ze) "plate" Includes any stereotype or other plate, stone, block, mould, matrix, transfer, negative tape, wire, optical films, or other device used or intended to be used for printing or reproducing copies of any work, and any matrix or other appliances by which records for the acoustic presentation of the work are or are intended to be made;
(zf) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Ordinance;
(zg) "public libraries" means the National Library of Bangladesh designated as such by the Government and any three other libraries as may be specified by the Government in this behalf by notification in the official gazette;
(zh) "rebroadcast" means a simultaneous or subsequent broadcast by one
. Broadcasting Authority of the broadcast of another Broadcasting Authority, whether situated in Bangladesh or abroad, and includes distribution of such broadcast over wires and "rebroadcasting" shall be construed accordingly;
(zi) "record" means any disc, tape, wire, perforated roll or other device in which sounds are embodied so as to be capable of being reproduced therefrom, other than a sound track associated with a cinematographic work;
(zj) "recording" means the aggregate of the sound, embodied in, and capable of 'being reproduced by means of a record;
(zk) "reproduction" in the case of a literary, dramatic or musical work, includesa reproduction in the form of a record or of a cinematographic work or the sorting of the work in a computer or other device by means of which it can be read or otherwise perceived and, in the case of an artistic work, includes a version produced by converting the work into a three-dimensional form, or if it is in three dimensions, by converting it into a two dimensional form and references to reproduction of a work shall be construed accordingly;
s (zl) "Registrar" means the Registrar of Copyrights appointed under section 44 and includes a Deputy Registrar of Copyrights discharging any function of the Registrar;
(zm) "work" means any of the following works, namely: (iii) a record; and
(iv) a broadcast;
(zn) "work of joint authorship" means a work produced by the collaboration of two or more authors in which the contribution of one author is not distinct from the contribution of the other author or authors; and
(zo) "work of sculpture" includes casts and modelsj]!
,. 3. Meaning of copyright.-(J) For the purposes of this Ordinance, "copyriiht" means the exclusive right, by virtue of, and subject to the provisions of, tills Ordinance, (iii) to perform the work in public; (vii) to make any adaptation of the work;
(viii) to do in relation to a translation or an adaptation of the work any of the acts specified in relation to the work in sub-clauses (0 to (vi); (iii) to use the work in a cinematographic work;
(iv) to show the work in television;
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