Division 2.—Original Works.
Expired copyright not to revive. 210.—(1.) Notwithstanding anything in Part III., copyright does not subsist by virtue of that Part in a work first published before the commencement of this Act unless copyright subsisted in the work under the Copyright Act, 1911 immediately before the commencement of this Act.
(2.) The last preceding sub-section does not apply in relation to a work to which Division 5 of this Part applies.
Original works in which copyright subsists. 211.—(1.) Sub-section (1.) of section 32 of this Act applies to works made before the commencement of this Act as if each reference in that sub-section to a qualified person included a reference to a British subject and to a person domiciled in any part of the Queen’s dominions to which the Copyright Act, 1911 extended.
(2.) Sub-section (2.) of section 32 of this Act applies to works first published before the commencement of this Act as if paragraphs (d) and (e) of that sub-section were omitted.
(3.) Sub-section (2.) of section 32 of this Act applies to works that are first published after the commencement of this Act and the author of which died before the commencement of the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948 as if the reference in paragraph (e) of that sub-section to a qualified person included a reference to a person who would have been an Australian citizen if that Act had been in force immediately before his death.
(4.) Sub-section (3.) of section 32 of this Act does not apply to or in relation to a building that was constructed before the commencement of this Act.
(5.) This section has effect subject to the last preceding section.
Duration of copyright in photographs. 212. Sub-section (6.) of section 33 of this Act does not apply in relation to a photograph taken before the commencement of this Act but, subject to sub-section (2.) of section 32 of this Act as affected by the last preceding section, copyright subsisting in such a photograph by virtue of Part III. continues to subsist until the expiration of fifty years after the expiration of the calendar year in which the photograph was taken.
Ownership of copyright. 213.—(1.) Sub-sections (4.) and (6.) of section 35 of this Act do not apply in relation to works made before the commencement of this Act.
(2.) Sub-section (5.) of section 35 of this Act does not apply in relation to a work that was or is made in pursuance of an agreement made before the commencement of this Act.
(3.) Where a work is excluded from the application of sub-section (4.), sub-section (5.) or sub-section (6.) of section 35 of this Act by reason of either of the last two preceding sub-sections, sub-section (2.) of section 35 of this Act has effect in relation to the work subject to the succeeding sub-sections of this section.
