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performance of a work, an expression of folklore, a fixed
performance, a sound recording audiovisual fixation or a
broadcast or a typographical arrangement.
PART XI__INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT OR RELATED RIGHTS
Infringement of
copyright
88.__(1) A person infringes copyright in respect of any work
protected under this Act where, without valid transfer, licence or
authorization under this Act, the person does, permits or causes
another person to__
(a) reproduce, fix, duplicate, extract or imitate such work or
permit or cause it to be reproduced, fixed, duplicated, extracted,
or imitated;
(b) distribute copies of such work to the public or permit or
cause copies of such work to be distributed to the public, by way
of sale, lending, handout, gift or like manner, or offer or expose
copies of such work for such distribution, except when the copies
have been sold or otherwise assigned or elsewhere by or with the
consent of the author;
(c) distribute copies of such work, or cause or permit copies of
such work to be distributed to the public, by way of commercial
hire or rental, or offer or expose copies of such work to the public
for such distribution, except in the case of objects for practical
use, works of architecture in the form of a building, and computer
programmes which in themselves are not the essential object of
the hire or rental;
(d) distribute, or cause or permit to be distributed, to the public,
machine readable copies of computer programmes by way of
lending, or offer or expose such copies for such distribution;
(e) make a public display of copies of such work or permit or
cause such public display to be made, except when the copies
have been sold or otherwise assigned in Malawi or elsewhere by
or with the consent of the author;
(f) make a public performance of such work or permit or cause
a public performance of it to be made;
(g) communicate such work, or permit or cause it to be
communicated, to the public by way of broadcast,
communication by cable or like manner, including
communication made in such manner that members of the public
may access the work from a place and at a time individually
chosen by them; or
(h) import, or permit or cause to be imported, into Malawi
copies of such work, which have been made abroad in such