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No. 63
Copyright
1968

apart from this sub-section, subsist in the recording or film immediately after the first publication of the recording or film—

(a) copyright subsists in the recording or film, or, if copyright in the recording or film subsisted immediately before its first publication, continues to subsist in the recording or film;
(b) that copyright subsists until the expiration of fifty years after the expiration of the calendar year in which the recording or film was first published; and
(c) the organization is, subject to Part X., the owner of that copyright.

(3.) Where an edition of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or of two or more literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works, other than an edition that reproduces a previous edition of the same work or works, is published by, or under the direction or control of, an international organization to which this Act applies in such circumstances that copyright would not, apart from this sub-section, subsist in the edition immediately after the first publication of the edition—

(a) copyright subsists in the edition;
(b) that copyright subsists until the expiration of twenty-five years after the expiration of the calendar year in which the edition was first published; and
(c) the organization is, subject to Part X., the owner of that copyright.

(4.) Part IV., other than the provisions of that Part relating to the subsistence, duration or ownership of copyright, applies in relation to copyright subsisting by virtue of this section in like manner as it applies in relation to copyright subsisting by virtue of that Part.


Part IX.—False Attribution of Authorship.

Definition. 189. In this Part, “name” includes initials or a monogram.

Duty not to attribute falsely the authorship of a work. 190.—(1.) A person (in this sub-section referred to as “the offender”) is, by virtue of this section, under a duty to the author of a work not to—

(a) insert or affix another person’s name in or on the work, or in or on a reproduction of the work, in such a way as to imply that the other person is the author of the work;
(b) publish, sell or let for hire, by way of trade offer or expose for sale or hire, or by way of trade exhibit in public, the work with another person’s name so inserted or affixed, if the offender knows that the other person is not the author of the work;
(c) do any of the acts mentioned in the last preceding paragraph in relation to, or distribute, reproductions of the work, being reproductions in or on which another person’s name has been so