Fine Arts Copyright.
CHAPTER 40.
FINE ARTS COPYRIGHT.
[CAP. 40
Relating to copyright in works of the fine arts, and for originally repressing the commission of fraud in the production and sale of such works.
24 of 1901.
17 of 1901.
24 of 1950, Schedule.
[19th October, 1901.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Fine Arts Copyright Ordinance.
fraudulent productions and sales.
(1) No person shall do or cause to be done any of the following acts-
2.
c. 68, s. 7.
(a) fraudulently sign or otherwise affix, or fraudulently cause to be signed or otherwise affixed, to or upon any painting, drawing or photograph, or the negative thereof, any name, initials or monogram;
(b) fraudulently sell, publish, exhibit or dispose of, or offer for sale, exhibition or distribution, any painting, drawing or photograph, or negative of a photograph, having thereon the name, initials or monogram of a person who did not execute or make such work;
(c) fraudulently utter, dispose of or put off, or cause to be uttered or disposed of, any copy or colourable imitation of any painting, drawing or photograph, or negative of a photograph, whether there is subsisting copyright therein or not, as having been made or executed by the author or maker of the original work from which such copy or imitation has been taken.
(2) Where the author or maker of any painting, drawing or photograph, or negative of a photograph, made either before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, has sold or otherwise parted with the possession of such work, if any alteration is afterwards made therein by any other person, by addition or otherwise, no person shall be at liberty, during the life of the author or maker of such work, without his consent, to make, or knowingly to sell or publish or offer for sale, such work or any copies of such work so altered as aforesaid, or of any part thereof, as or for the unaltered work of such author or maker.
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