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COPYRIGHT

tributors and proprietors

Respective this Act or any assignment thereunder the owner of the rights of con- copyright in the article or contribution, then, subject to any agreement to the contrary, the owner of the copyright in each article or contribution shall retain his copyright therein, but the proprietor of the collective work shall at all times have the right of reproducing and authorising the reproduction of the work as a whole, and for a period of fifty years from the date of first publication of the collec- tive work shall have the sole right of reproducing and au- thorising the reproduction of the work as a whole, and shall be entitled to the same remedies in respect of the infringe- ment of the copyright in any part of the work as if he were the owner of the copyright.

Copyright in photographs, records and perforated rolls

31. The term for which copyright shall subsist in photo- graphs, and in records, perforated rolls and other contri- vances by means of which a work may be mechanically per- formed or delivered, shall be fifty years from the making of the negative or plate, and the person who was owner of the original negative or plate from which the photo- graph or other contrivance was directly or indirectly de- rived at the time when such negative or plate was made shall be deemed to be the author of the work, and where such owner is a body corporate the body corporate shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to reside within the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act ex- tends if it has established a place of business within such parts.

Application of Act to registered designs

Rtdes

32. This Act shall not apply to designs capable of being registered under The Trade Mark and Design Act, except designs which, though capable of being so registered, are not used or intended to be used as models or patterns to be multipUed by any industrial process.

(2.) General rules under section 39 of The Trade Mark and Design Act, may be made for determining the condi- tions under which a design shall be deemed to be used for such purposes as aforesaid.