Part II
—cont.registered under that legislation, at a time when it has not been registered under the said Part III, the copyright shall continue to subsist until the end of the period of fifty years from the end of the calendar year which includes the date on which the film is registered under that legislation, and shall then expire.
(4) Subject to the provisions of Part VI of this Act, the maker of a cinematography film shall be entitled to any copyright subsisting in the film by virtue of this section.
(5) The acts restricted by the copyright in a cinematography film are—
(b) causing the film, in so far as it consists of visual images, to be seen in public, or, in so far as it consists of sounds, to be heard in public;
(c) broadcasting the film;
(d) causing the film to be transmitted to subscribers to a diffusion service.
(6) The copyright in a cinematography film is not infringed by making a copy of it for the purposes of a judicial proceeding, or by causing it to be seen or heard in public for the purposes of such a proceeding.
(7) Where by virtue of this section copyright has subsisted in a cinematography film, a person who, after that copyright has expired, causes the film to be seen, or to be seen and heard, in public does not thereby infringe any copyright subsisting by virtue of Part I of this Act in any literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work.
(8) In the case of any such film as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of section thirty-live of the Cinematograph Films Act, 1938 (which relates to newsreels), the copyright in the film is not infringed by causing it to be seen or heard in public after the end of the period of fifty years from the end of the calendar year in which the principal events depicted in the film occurred.
(9) For the purposes of this Act a cinematography film shall be taken to include the sounds embodied in any sound-track associated with the film, and references to a copy of a cinematography film shall be construed accordingly:
Provided that where those sounds are also embodied in a record, other than such a sound-track or a record derived (directly or indirectly) from such a sound-track, the copyright in the film is not infringed by any use made of that record.
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