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(b) publishes, sells or lets for hire, or by Way of trade offers or 'exposes for sale or hire a reproduction of the work as so altered, as being a reproduction of the unaltered work of the author,
if to his knowledge it is not the unaltered work, or, as the case may be, a reproduction of the unaltered work, of the author.
(5) The three last preceding subsections shall apply with respect to anything done in relation to another person after that person's death, as if any reference to that person's licence were a reference to a licence given by him or by his personal representatives:
Provided that nothing in those subsections shall apply to anything done in relation to a person more than twenty years after that person's death.
(6) In the case of an artistic Work in which copyright subsists, the said restrictions are also contravened, in relation to the author of the work, by a person who in the United Kingdom—
(b) distributes reproductions of the work as being reproductions made by the author of the work,
if (in any such case) the reproduction or reproductions was or were to his knowledge not made by the author.
(7) The preceding provisions of this section shall apply (with the necessary modifications) with respect to acts done in relation to two or more persons in connection with the same Work.
(8) The restrictions imposed by this section shall not be enforceable by any criminal proceedings; but any contravention of those restrictions, in relation to a person, shall be actionable at his suit, or, if he is dead, at the suit of his personal representatives, as a breach of statutory duty.
(9) Any damages recovered under this section by personal representatives, in respect of a contravention committed in relation to a person after his death, shall devolve as part of his estate, as if the right of action had subsisted and had been vested in him immediately before his death.
(10) Nothing in this section shall derogate from any right of action or other remedy (whether civil or criminal) in proceedings instituted otherwise than by virtue of this section: Provided that this subsection shall not be construed as requiring any damages recovered by virtue of this section to be
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