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GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE'

To amend the Copyright Act, 1978, so as to provide that the exclusive licensee and the exclusive sub-licensee shall have the same rights of action and be entitled to the same legal remedies as the owner of the copyright; and to provide that their rights of action and legal remedies shall be concurrent with those of such owner.

(Afrikaans text signed by the State President.) (Assented to 9 April 1986.)

E IT ENACTED by the State President and the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:―

1. The following section is hereby substituted for section 25 of the Copyright Act, 1978:

2. This Act shall be called the Copyright Amendment Act, 1986.