THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH OCTOBER, 1886.
"Work" shall mean and include a book, periodical, collective book, anonymous or posthumous work, dramatic piece, a work of fine art, lecture, sermon, and anything that is the subject of copyright under this Act.
"First Publication" shall mean either-
The first act of offering to the public gratuitously or for sale;
or first public performance;
or first public exposure for reward or payment to the owner of the copyright. "Public Performance" shall mean delivery or performance in a place to which "adınittance is ‘obtained by the public by payment or subscription, or gratuitous delivery
to the public, or delivery or performance for hire.
Copyright on and after Publication.
5. Any person who shall be the author, inventor, designer, or maker of
any book;
any lecture or sermon ;
any dramatic piece;
or any work of fine art;
or his lawful representatives or assigns, shall have the sole right
To print, reprint, model, draw, paint, engrave, photograph, or otherwise copy from the model, cast, engrave, photograph, or multiply copies, in any
size, in whole or in part, by any means whatsoever;
to translate, dramatize, or abridge ;
to publish, import, expose publicly or for sale, or sell;
to deliver, perform publicly, or permit, or cause to be so delivered or performed
by others;
and to reduce the score, to arrange and to adapt the air or melody of any dramatic piece or musical composition for other purposes than that to which it was first applied by the author;
and this right shall be termed copyright.
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Who shall be entitled to copyright.
Nature of copyright.
6., No person shall be entitled by this Act to copyright in any work unless it is Place of publication. first published in the British dominions.
7. Copyright shall last and endure from the first publication of the work for the Duration of life of the author, inventor, designer, or maker, and until thirty years after the end of copyright.
in which he died :
the
year
Except that in the case of a posthumous or anonymous work, an anonymous Exceptions.
article in a periodical not subsequently republished in any other form, an engraving, etching, lithograph, or any similar work produced by any other process, or any print therefrom, which does not form part of a book, this right shall only last for the remainder of the year in which it is first published, and thirty years afterwards, and in the case of an anonymous collective book for the year in which its publication is completed, and thirty years afterwards.
Except also that the right of republication in a separate form shall revert to the author of any article sold only for publication in a periodical after three years from the first publication thereof.
Except also that the proprietor of any periodical or collective book shall not have the right to publish in a separate form any article bought for publication-therein only, without the written consent of the author; Except also that the copyright in a photograph which does not form part of a book, by being first published as an illustration therein and thereof, shall only last for the remainder of the year in which it is published and five years afterwards.
in a work of fine art, &c.
8. The copyright in any work of fine art shall pass to the purchaser of the work Owner of copyright unless reserved to the author, inventor, designer, or maker thereof by note or memorandum in writing.
8. In the case of a portrait painted, drawn, or sculptured on commission, or an engraving, or an etching, or a lithograph, or a photographic negative, or any similar work, or a book, periodical, or collective book, or any part thereof, made or executed or written on commission, the purchaser for whom such commissioned work has been executed shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed the original owner of the copyright therein.
9. This Act shall not confer copyright in immoral, seditious, libellous, or blasphe- mous works.