(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the owner of copyright shall have the exclusive right to do, authorise, or prohibit the following acts in relation to the work—
(a) reproduction of the work;
(b) translation of the work;
(c) adaptation, arrangement or other transformation of the work;
(d) the first public distribution of the original and each copy of the work by sale, rental or otherwise;
(e) rental or public lending of the original or a copy of an audiovisual work, a work embodied in a sound recording, a computer programme, a data base or a musical work in the form of notation, irrespective of the ownership of the original or copy concerned;
(f) importation of copies of the work, even where the imported copies were made with the authorisation of the owner of copyright;
(g) public display of the original or a copy of the work;
(h) public performance of the work;
(i) broadcasting of the work;
(j) communication to the public of the work.
(2) The rights of rental and lending under subsection (1)(e) do not apply—
(a) to rental or lending of computer programmes where the programme itself is not the essential object of the rental or lending; or
(b) to cinematographic works, unless such commercial rental has led to widespread copying of such works materially impairing the exclusive right of production.
(3) The onus of proving that widespread copying of a cinematographic work has materially impaired the exclusive right of production under this section rests upon the person who alleges that such is the case.
(Inserted by Act 7 of 2000)