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  as those paragraphs apply in a case where it is proved that the author is dead.

(7) In any action brought by virtue of this Part of this Act with respect to copyright in a sound recording, if records embodying that recording or part thereof have been issued to the public, and at the time when those records were so issued they bore a label or other mark comprising any one or more of the following statements, that is to say,— (a) that a person named on the label or mark was the maker of the sound recording;

(b) that -the recording was first published in a year specified on the label or mark;

(c) that the recording was first published in a country specified on the label or mark, that label or mark shall be sufficient evidence of the facts so stated except in so far as the contrary is proved.

21.—(1) Any person who, at a time when copyright subsists in a work,— (a) makes for sale or hire, or

(b) sells or lets for hire, or by way of trade offers or exposes for sale or hire, or

(c) by way of trade exhibits in public, or

(d) imports into the United Kingdom, otherwise than for his private and domestic use, any article which he knows to be an infringing copy of the work, shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection.

(2) Any person who, at a time when copyright subsists in a work, distributes, either— (a) for purposes of trade, or

(b) for other purposes, but to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright, articles which he knows to be infringing copies of the work, shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection.

(3) Any person who, at a time when copyright subsists in a work, makes or has in his possession a plate, knowing that it is to be used for making infringing copies of the work, shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection.

(4) The preceding subsections shall apply in relation to copyright subsisting in any subject-matter by virtue of Part II of this Act, as they apply in relation to copyright subsisting by virtue of Part I of this Act. 34