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Ownership of Copyright — rordinved. assignment,

may be partial, 08, 59, 70

exclusive right to sell not separately assignable, 59 must be in writing, 58

all documents relating to, to be put in evidence, 60 right of assignor to sell stock in band, 60 where work not yet in existence, 60 of right of action in respect of past infringement, 61 executory agreement to assign, 61 in foreign country, 62 warranty of title, 62

whether royalties run with copyright, 62 death, copyright passes as personal property on, 63 bankruptcy, copyright passes to trustee on, 63 old law,

divisibility of copyright, 69

performing right does not pass with copyright, 70 writing or other formalities required, '69 copyright passes on death or bankruptcy, 70 assignment of inchoate right before publication, 70 licence,

distingiiished from assignment, 63 must be in writing, 58

effect of oral licence, as estoppel, (57 licensee cannot sue alone, 63, 64 whether assignees of copp-ight for value and without

notice bound by licence, 64 whether a sole licence, 64 licensee's remedies against infringers, 64 how far revocable, 65

right to dispose of copies after revocation, 65 licence for specified time or object, 65 how far purely personal, 66 author's unassignable reversion, proviso to sect. 5 (2)... 58

application to photographs and records, 67

" existing works," 68 saving of collective work and contributions thereto, 68 sale of reversionary interest, after author's death, 69 presumptions as to title,

existence of copyright or plaintiff's title 2"»i'esumed unless put in issue, 79

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