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§ 16. Works of joint authors

16. — (1) In the case of a work of joint author- ship, copyright («) shall subsist during the life of the author who first dies and for a term of fifty years after his death, or during the life of the author who dies last, whichever period is the longer, and references in this Act to the period after the expiration of any specified number of years from the death of the author (h) shall be construed as references to the period after the expiration of the like number of years from the death of the author who dies first or after the death of the author who dies last, whichever period may be the shorter, and in the provisions of this Act with respect to the grant of com- pulsory licences (c) a reference to the date of the death of the author who dies last shall be substi- tuted for the reference to the date of the death of the author.

(2) Where, in the case of a work of joint authorship, some one or more of the joint authors do not satisfy the conditions conferring copyright laid down by this Act (J), the work shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as if the other

(«) Sect. 1 (2).

[h) Sects. 3, Proviso ; 5 (2), Proviso.

(c) Sect. 4.

{d) Sect. 1 (1) (b).

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