In conformity with Law-No.-2000-011-of-December-19-2000-on-Copyright-and-Neighbouring-Rights, the various definitions are widely used in the music copyright sector of Cameroon:
Original Work shall mean one which, by virtue of its characteristics or expression, can be differentiated from previous works;
Joint Work shall mean one produced jointly by two or more authors, working separately or together;
Composite Work shall mean one to which is added a pre-existing work, not produced by the author of the latter;
Audio-visual Work shall be one that is made up of a series of interrelated motion pictures, with or without the sound track;
Posthumous Work shall be one that is made public after the death of its author;
Anonymous Work shall be one that does not bear the name of its author;
Pseudonymous Work shall be one in which the author uses a false name;
Work belonging to the public domain shall be one whose term of protection has lapsed;
Work derived from folklore shall be one based on facts and ideas borrowed from the traditional cultural heritage of the country;
Folklore shall mean all productions involving aspects characteristic of traditional cultural heritage, produced and perpetuated by a community or by individuals who clearly reflect the expectations of such community, comprising particularly folk tales, folk dances and shows, as well as artistic expressions, rituals and productions of popular art;
Computer Program or Software shall be all the instructions given to a computer to carry out certain operations;
Databases or Data Bank shall be a collection of works, data or other elements systematised in such a way that they can be retrieved and processed using a computer;
Commissioned Work shall be one produced for an individual or corporate body for payment;
Collective Work shall be one produced by several authors at the initiative and under the authority of an individual or of a corporate body which publishes it in its name, and in which the contributions of the authors who participated in producing the work are reflected in the whole work, without the possibility of identifying the individual contribution of each of the authors in the whole;
Performing Artists shall be authors, singers, musicians, dancers and other persons who represent, sing, recite, play or perform in any other way literary or artistic works, including folklore expressions;
Phonogram shall be any fixation of sound coming from a rendering or performance of other sounds, or of a representation of sounds other than in the form of a fixation incorporated in an audio-visual work;
Video gram shall be any fixation of pictures with or without sound;
Programme shall be any set of pictures, sounds or pictures and sounds, recorded or otherwise, incorporated in signals destined for distribution;
Audio-visual Communication firm shall be a radio or television broadcasting body or any other medium for broadcasting programmes to the public;
Phonogram Producer shall mean the individual or corporate body which is first to fix the sounds coming from a performance or other sounds, or from a transcription of sounds or the individual or corporate body which took the initiative to fix same;
Video gram Producer shall mean the individual or corporate body which first fixes pictures with or without sound, or the transfer of such images, or the individual or corporate body who took the fixation initiative;
Publication shall mean the act of making public the original or copy of a literary or artistic work, interpretation, programme, phonogram or videogram;
Rebroadcast shall mean the simultaneous or delayed broadcast by an audiovisual communication firm.