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The above provisions shall apply to reproductions or productions made by any other process analogous to a film.

Section11.Reproduction in the following manner shall, His Majesty declares, be unlawful under this Act, namely, indirect appropriation of another person’s literary or artistic work without authorisation by its owner, such as by adaptation, musical arrangement, transformation of a fictional work, novel, or poetic work into a dramatic work, or transformation of a dramatic work into a fictional work, novel, or poetic work, whether it be reproduced in the original form or in a modified form, in so far as it is without any significant change, addition, or abridgement and has no characteristic of a newly invented literary or artistic work.

Section12.Subject to the provisions of this Act, the author of a literary or artistic work shall be the owner of the copyright over that literary or artistic work. This shall be governed by the following conditions:

(a)in case of an engraving, photograph, or picture, when the plate or other thing equivalent thereto was made by an order from another person and was made for valuable consideration, His Majesty declares that the person ordering the making of the plate or thing equivalent thereto shall be the owner of the copyright, save where otherwise agreed upon;

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