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COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 187

Original works made or first published by international organizations

  (1)   Where an original literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work is made by, or under the direction or control of, an international organization to which this Act applies in such circumstances that copyright would not, apart from this subsection, subsist in the work:

  (a)   copyright subsists in the work; and

  (c)   the organization is, subject to Part   X, the owner of that copyright.

  (2)   Where an original literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work is first published by, or under the direction or control of, an international organization to which this Act applies in such circumstances that copyright would not, apart from this subsection, subsist in the work immediately after the first publication of the work:

  (a)   copyright subsists in the work, or, if copyright in the work subsisted immediately before its first publication, continues to subsist in the work; and

  (c)   the organization is, subject to Part   X, the owner of that copyright.

  (3)   Part   III, other than the provisions of that Part relating to the subsistence, duration or ownership of copyright, applies in relation to copyright subsisting by virtue of this section in like manner as it applies in relation to copyright subsisting by virtue of that Part.

  (4)   This section has effect subject to section   188A.


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