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or his legal personal representatives and not to the assignee, and the royalties aforesaid shall be payable to, and for the benefit of, the author of the work or his legal personal representatives :
(d) The saving contained in this Act of the rights and interests arising from, or in connexion with, action taken before the commencement of this Act shall not be construed as authorising any person who has made contrivances by means of which the work may be mechanically performed to sell any such contrivances, whether made before or after the passing of this Act, except on the terms and subject to the conditions laid down in this section :
(e) Where the work is a work on which copyright is conferred by an Order in Council relating to a foreign country, the copyright so conferred shall not, except to such extent as may be provided by the Order, include any rights with respect to the making of records, perforated rolls, or other contrivances by means of which the work may be mechanically performed.
(8) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, where a record, perforated roll, or other contrivance by means of which sounds may be mechanically reproduced has been made before the commencement of this Act, copyright shall, as from the commencement of this Act, subsist therein in like manner and for the like term as if this Act had been in force at the date of the making of the original plate from which the contrivance was directly or indirectly derived :
Provided that—
(i) the person who, at the commencement of this Act, is the owner of such original plate shall be the first owner of such copyright; and
(ii) nothing in this provision shall be construed as conferring copyright in any such contrivance if the making thereof would have infringed copyright in some other such contrivance, if this provision had been in force at the time of the making of the first-mentioned contrivance.
20. Notwithstanding anything in this Act, it shall not be an infringement of copyright in an address of a political nature delivered at a public meeting to publish a report thereof in a newspaper.
speeches.
Provisions
21. The term for which copyright shall subsist in photographs shall be 50 years from the making of the original negative from which the photograph was directly or indirectly derived, and the person who
graphs,
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208
Act of 1911.
Provision as
THE COPYRIGHT ACT.
or his legal personal representatives and not to the assignee, and the royalties aforesaid shall be payable to, and for the benefit of, the author of the work or his legal personal re- presentatives :
(d) The saving contained in this Act of the rights and interests arising from, or in connexion with, action taken before the commencement of this Act shall not be construed as authorising any person who has made contrivances by means of which the work may be mechanically performed to sell any such contrivances, whether made before or after the passing of this Act, except on the terms and subject to the conditions laid down in this section :
(e) Where the work is a work on which copyright is conferred by an Order in Council relating to a foreign country, the copyright so conferred shall not, except to such extent as may be provided by the Order, include any. rights with respect to the making of records, perforated rolls, or other contrivances by means of which the work may be mechani- cally performed.
(8) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, where a record, per- forated roll, or other contrivance by means of which sounds may be mechanically reproduced has been made before the commencement of this Act, copyright shall, as from the commencement of this Act, subsist therein in like manner and for the like term as if this Act had been in force at the date of the making of the original plate from which the contrivance was directly or indirectly derived :
Provided that—
(i) the person who, at the commencement of this Act, is the owner of such original plate shall be the first owner of such copyright; and
(ii) nothing in this provision shall be construed as conferring copyright in any such contrivance if the making thereof would have infringed copyright in some other such con- trivance, if this provision had been in force at the time of the making of the first-mentioned contrivance.
20. Notwithstanding anything in this Act, it shall not be an in- to political fringement of copyright in an address of a political nature delivered at a public meeting to publish a report thereof in a newspaper.
speeches.
Provisions
21. The term for which copyright shall subsist in photographs shall as to photo- be 50 years from the making of the original negative from which the photograph was directly or indirectly derived, and the person who
graphs,
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