Part VIII.--Miscellaneous.

{Sidenote: Interpretation}

4. _Interpretation._--In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears--

"Artistic work" includes--

(_a_) Any painting, drawing, or sculpture; and

(_b_) Any engraving, etching, print, lithograph, woodcut, photograph, or other work of art produced by any process, mechanical or otherwise, by which impressions or representations of works of art can be taken or multiplied:

"Author" includes the personal representatives of an author:

{Sidenote: Interpretation}

"Book" includes any book or volume, and any part or division of a book or volume, and any article in a book or volume, and any pamphlet, periodical, sheet of letterpress, sheet of music, map, chart, diagram, or plan separately published, and any illustration therein:

"Dramatic work," in addition to being included in the definition of book, means any tragedy, comedy, play, drama, farce, burlesque, libretto, of an opera, entertainment, or other work of a like nature, whether set to music or otherwise, lyrical work set to music, or other scenic or dramatic composition:

"Lecture" includes a sermon:

"Musical work" in addition to being included in the definition of book, includes any combination of melody and harmony, or either of them, printed, reduced to writing, or otherwise graphically produced or reproduced:

"Periodical" means a review, magazine, newspaper, or other periodical work of a like nature:

"Pirated artistic work" means a reproduction of an artistic work made in any manner without the authority of the owner of the copyright in the artistic work:

"Pirated book" means a reproduction of a book made in any manner without the authority of the owner of the copyright in the book:

"Portrait" includes any work the principal object of which is the representation of a person by painting, drawing, engraving, photography, sculpture, or any form of art:

"Publish" and "Publication" in relation to a book refer to offer for sale or distribution, in each case with the privity of the author, so as to make the book accessible to the public:

"The Registrar" means the Registrar of Copyrights or a Deputy Registrar of Copyrights:

"State Copyright Act" means any State Act relating to the registration of the copyright or performing right, or lecturing right in books, or dramatic or musical works, or in artistic works, or fine art works, or in lectures.

{Sidenote: Simultaneous publication or performance}

5. _What is simultaneous publication or performance._--For the purposes of this Act publication, performance, or delivery in the Commonwealth shall be deemed to be simultaneous with publication, performance, or delivery elsewhere if the period between the publications, performances, or deliveries does not exceed fourteen days.

{Sidenote: Blasphemous, etc., matter}

6. _Blasphemous, &c., matter not protected._--No copyright, performing right, or lecturing right shall subsist under this Act in any blasphemous, indecent, seditious, or libelous work or matter.

{Sidenote: Application of common law}

7. _Application of the Common Law._--Subject to this and any other Acts of the Parliament, the Common Law of England relating to proprietary rights in unpublished literary compositions, shall after the commencement of this Act, apply throughout the Commonwealth.

{Sidenote: State copyright acts}

8. _State Copyright Acts not to apply to copyright under this Act._--(1.) The State Copyright Acts so far as they relate to the copyright in any book, the performing right in any musical or dramatic work, the lecturing right in any lecture, or the copyright in any artistic or fine art work shall not apply to any book, dramatic or musical work, lecture, or artistic work in which copyright, performing right, or lecturing right, subsists under this Act.

{Sidenote: Rights under state laws}

_Saving of rights under State laws._--(2.) Subject to Part II. of this Act, nothing in this Act shall affect the application of the laws in force in any State at the commencement of this Act to any copyright or other right in relation to books or dramatic or musical works or lectures or artistic or fine art works acquired under or protected by those laws before the commencement of this Act.