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infringing copies, and the owners of the original records§19. will be able to take proceedings under sect. 7 for delivery up of all such reproductions.


20. Notwithstanding: anything in this Act, itProvision as to political speeches. shall not be an infringement of copyright[1] in an address[2] of a political nature delivered[3] at a public meeting to publish[4] a report thereof in a newspaper.


The right of newspapers to criticize, summarise, or report verbatim is considered in the commentary to sect. 2 (1) (i) and (v).


21. The term[5] for which copyright[6] shall as Provisions as to photographs. subsist in photographs[7] shall be fifty years from graphs, the making of the original negative from which the photograph was directly or indirectly derived, and the person who was owner of such negative at the time when such negative was made shall be deemed to be the author of the work[8], and, where such owner is a body corporate, the body corporate shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act[9] to reside within the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends[10] if it has established a place of business within such parts.


At present, under the Fine Arts Act, 1862, photographsNature and extent of protection. are protected for the life of the author and seven years,

  1. Sect. 1.
  2. Sect. 3.5 (1) ("Lecture").
  3. Sect. 35 (1) ("Delivery").
  4. Sect. 1 (3).
  5. Sect. 3.
  6. Sect. 1 (2).
  7. Sect. 35 (1) ("Photograph").
  8. Sect. 5 (1).
  9. Sects. 1 (1) (b), 23, 26 (3), 27.
  10. Sects. 25 (1), 26 (1), 28, 35 (1) ("Self-governing dominions").