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- (b) by storage—
- (i) in a computer;
- (ii) on any medium by electronic means; or
- (iii) on any other medium from which the work, or a substantial part thereof, can be directly reproduced.
(2) A literary, dramatic or musical work in the form of sounds embodied in an article or a thing is considered—
- (a) to have been fixed in a material form; and
- (b) to have been so fixed when those sounds were embodied in that article or thing.
Subdivision (4)—Adaptations of literary, dramatic or musical works
What is an adaptation of a literary or dramatic work
17. An “adaptation” of a literary work is—
- (a) in relation to a literary work in a non-dramatic form—a version of the work (whether in its original language or in a different language) in a dramatic form;
- (b) in relation to a literary work in a dramatic form—a version of the work (whether in its original language or in a different language) in a non-dramatic form;
- (c) in relation to a literary work being a computer program—a version of the work (whether or not in the language, code or notation in which the work was originally expressed) that is not a copy of the work; and
- (d) in relation to any literary work (whether in a non-dramatic form or dramatic form)—
- (i) a translation of the work; or
- (ii) a version of the work in which a story or an action is conveyed wholly or mainly through pictures.
