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[Pt. III, S. 24-25]

Government use of copyright. 24. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the copyright in any work which is eligible for copyright is not infringed by—

	(a)	the use; or
	(b)	the reproduction or adaptation in any form,

of any work by or on behalf of the Government.

(2) The Government shall pay to the owner of the copyright adequate compensation for the use of the work.

Moral rights. 25. (1) For the purposes of this section, the word “name” includes initials or monograms.

(2) Subject to this section, where copyright subsists in a work, no person may, without the consent of the author, or, after the author’s death, of his personal representative, do or authorize the doing of any of the following acts:

(a)

the presentation of the work, by any means whatsoever, under a name other than that of the author; and

(b)

the presentation of the work by any means whatsoever, in a modified form if the modification—

	(i)	significantly alters the work; and
	(ii)	is such that it might reasonably be regarded as adversely affecting the author’s honour or reputation.

(3) Where a person is authorized, whether by virtue of an assignment, a licence or otherwise, to publish, reproduce, perform in public, broadcast or communicate by cable a work, that person may make modifications to the work if it would be reasonable to expect that the authorized publication, reproduction, public performance, broadcast or communication by