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 BRITISH COPYRIGHT ACT, 191 1 533

be construed as authorizing 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 con- ferred 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, in- clude 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 con- ferring 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 contriv- ance.

20. Notwithstanding anything in this Act, it shall not be Provision as an infringement of copyright in an address of a political *" political nature delivered at a public meeting to publish a report ^P^®™^^ thereof in a newspaper.

21. The term for which copyright shall subsist in photo- Provisions graphs shall be fifty years from the making of the original *s to photo- negative from which the photograph was directly or indi- Srapns rectly derived, and the person who was owner of such nega-