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Ch. 74
Copyright Act, 1956
4 & 5 ELIZ. 2

6th Sch.
cont.

Provision amended Amendment
Section three For the words “records or” there shall be substituted the words “records, cinematography films”.
Section four At the end of the definition of the expression record ” there shall be inserted the words including the sound-track of a cinematography film”; and at the end of the section there shall be inserted the following definitions:—

“The expression 'cinematography film' means any print, negative, tape or other article on which a performance of a dramatic or musical work or part thereof is recorded for the purposes of visual reproduction, and any reference to the making of a cinematography film is a reference to the carrying out of any process whereby such a performance or part thereof is so recorded;

The expression 'broadcast' means broadcast by wireless telegraphy (within the meaning of the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1949), whether by way of sound broadcasting or of television”.


Section 50

SEVENTH SCHEDULE

Transitional Provisions

Part 1

Provisions relating to Part I of Act

Conditions for subsistence of copyright

1. In the application of sections two and three to works first published before the commencement of those sections, subsection (2) of section two, and subsection (3) of section three, shall apply as if paragraphs (b) and (c) of those subsections were omitted.


Duration of copyright

2. In relation to any photograph taken before the commencement of section three, subsection (4) of that section shall not apply, but, subject to subsection (3) of that section, copyright subsisting in the photograph by virtue of that section shall continue to subsist until the end of the period of fifty years from the end of the calendar year in which the photograph was taken, and shall then expire. Ownership of copyright

3.—(l) Subsections (2) to (4) of section four shall not apply—

(a) to any work made as mentioned in subsection (2) or subsection (4) of that section, if the work was so made before the commencement of that section, or

(b) to any work made as mentioned in subsection (3) of that section, if the work was or is so made in pursuance of a contract made before the commencement of that section.

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