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COPYRIGHT
Commence- ment and tenn
Ownership
Portraits
Photographs
Engravings and prints
Sale of paint- ing, etc.
35. Copyright in artistic works. — Copyright shall sub- sist in every artistic work whether the author is a British subject or not, which is made in Australia after the com- mencement of this Act.
e 36. Commencement and term of artistic copyright. — The copyright in an artistic work shall begin with the making of the work, and shall subsist for the term of forty-two years or for the author's life and seven years whichever shall last the longer.
37. Ownership of copyright in artistic work. — The au- thor of an artistic work shall be the first owner of the copy- right in the work.
38. Copyright in portraits. — When an artistic work, be- ing a portrait, is made to order for valuable consideration, the person to whose order it is made shall be entitled to the copyright therein as if he were the author thereof.
P- 39. Copyright in photographs. — (i.) When a photo- graph is made to order for valuable consideration the per- son to whose order it is made shall be entitled to the copy- right therein as if he were the author thereof.
(2). Subject to sub-section (i) of this section, when a photograph is made by an employee on behalf of his em- ployer the employer shall be deemed to be the author of the photograph.
. 40. Engravings and prints. — (i.) Subject to section thirty-four of this Act the engraver or other person who makes the plate or other instrument by which copies of an artistic work are multiplied shall be deemed to be the au- thor of the copies produced by means of the plate or instru- ment.
(2.) When the plate or other instrument mentioned in this section is made by an employee on behalf of his em- ployer the employer shall be deemed to be the author of the copies produced by means of the plate or instru- ment.
41. Copyright in case of sale of painting, statue, or bust. (i.) — When the owner of the copyright in any artistic work being a painting, or a statue, bust, or other like work, disposes of such work for valuable consideration, but does
