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Section 15

Nature of copyright in broadcasts

of Copyright Act 1987

ActIn forceProvision 19 of 110
Section 15
(1)

Copyright in a broadcast shall be the exclusive right to control in Malaysia the recording, the reproduction, and the rebroadcasting, of the whole or a substantial part of the broadcast, and the performance, showing or playing to the public in a place where an admission fee is charged of the whole or a substantial part of a television broadcast either in its original form or in any way recognizably derived from the original.

(2)

Notwithstanding subsection (1), paragraphs 13(2)(a), (g), (gg),

(ggg), (gggg), (h) and (o) shall also apply to the copyright in a broadcast.

(3)

The copyright in a television broadcast shall include the right to control the taking of still photographs from such broadcasts.