(2.) Regulations applying a provision of this Act in relation to a country other than Australia in accordance with the last preceding sub-section—
- (a) may apply the provision without exception or modification or subject to such exceptions or modifications as are specified in the regulations; and
- (b) may apply the provision either generally or in relation to such classes of works or other subject-matter, or other classes of cases, as are specified in the regulations.
(3.) Regulations applying any of the provisions of this Act in relation to a country, not being a country that is a party to a Convention relating to copyright to which Australia is also a party, shall not be made unless the Governor-General is satisfied that, in respect of the class of works or other subject-matter to which those provisions relate, provision has been or will be made under the law of that country by virtue of which adequate protection is or will be given to owners of copyright under this Act.
(4.) Where—
- (a) the identity of the author of an unpublished work is unknown but there are reasonable grounds for believing that the author of the work was, at the time when, or for a substantial part of the period during which, the work was made, a citizen or national of a country other than Australia;
- (b) under the law of that country, a person is authorized to represent the author, or to protect and enforce the rights of the author, in relation to that work; and
- (c) provision is made by the regulations applying any of the provisions of this Act in relation to works made by citizens or nationals of that country,
that person shall, for the purposes of those provisions as so applying, be treated as if he were the author of the work.
Denial of copyright to citizens of countries not giving adequate protection to Australian works. 185.—(1.) If it appears to the Governor-General that the law of a country does not give adequate protection to Australian works, or does not give adequate protection in relation to a class or classes of such works (whether the lack of protection relates to the nature of the work or the nationality, citizenship or country of residence of its author, or all of those matters), the regulations may make provision in relation to that country in accordance with the next succeeding sub-section.
(2.) Regulations made for the purposes of this section may provide, either generally or in such classes of cases as are specified in the regulations, that copyright under this Act does not subsist in works first published after a date specified in the regulations (which may be a date before the