Nature of copyright-economic rights

(1) By virtue of and subject to the provisions of this Act, the owner of the copyright in a work shall have the exclusive right to do or to authorise other persons to do any of the following acts in Belize or on any ship or aircraft registered in Belize, (a) to make copies of the work; (b) to issue copies of the work to the public; (c) to perform the work in public or, in the case of a sound recording, film, broadcast or cable programme, to show or play the work in (d) to broadcast the work or include it in a cable programme service; or (e) to make an adaptation of the work and, in relation to such adaptation, to do any or all of the foregoing acts. 31 (2) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, (a) references to the doing of any act in relation to any work means, (i) the doing of the act in relation to the whole or any substantial part of the work; and (ii) the doing of the act either directly or indirectly, and it is immaterial whether any intervening acts themselves (b) references in paragraph (b) of that subsection to issuing of copies to the public include the rental of copies to the public. (3) By virtue of and subject to the provisions of this Act, (a) the author of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work that is a protected work; or (b) the director of a film that is a protected work, shall have in respect of such work, whether or not he is the owner of the copyright in the work, the moral rights specified in Part III of this Act.