COPYRIGHT AND NEIGHBOURING RIGHTS ACT (AS AMENDED)
(a) by an author in the course of his employment by the proprietor of a newspaper,
magazine or similar periodical under a contract of service or apprenticeship; and
(b) for the purpose of publication in a newspaper, magazine or similar periodical;
the proprietor shall be the owner of the copyright in the work in so far as the copyright relates to
publishing the work in any newspaper, magazine or similar periodical or to reproducing the work
for the purpose of its being so published, but in all other respects the author shall be the owner of
the copyright.
(4)
Where a person commissions⎯
(a) the taking of a photograph; or
(b) the painting or drawing of a portrait; or
(c) the making of a gravure; or
(d) the making of an audio-visual work; or
(e) the making of a sound recording;
and pays or agrees to pay for it in money or money’s worth, and the work is made in pursuance
of the commission, that person shall, subject to subsection (2), be the owner of any copyright
subsisting in the work.
(5) Where in a case not falling within subsection (3) or (4), a work is made in the course of
the author’s employment by another person under a contract of employment or apprenticeship,
that other person shall be the owner of any copyright subsisting in the work.
(6) Ownership of any copyright conferred by section thirteen shall initially vest in the
State or the international organisation concerned, and not in the author:
Provided that any such State copyright shall for administrative purposes be deemed to vest in
such public officer or employee of the State as the President may designate by statutory
instrument.
(7) Subsections (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) shall have effect, in any particular case, subject to
any agreement excluding the operation of those subsections.
15 Duration of copyright
(1)
Subject to this section, the duration of copyright shall be, in the case of⎯
(a) an audio-visual work, a collective work, a photograph or a computer program, fifty
years from the end of the year in which the work is made available to the public with the
consent of the owner of the copyright or, failing such an event within fifty years from
the making of the work, fifty years from the end of the year in which the work is made;
(b) a sound recording, fifty years from the end of the year in which the recording is first
published;
(c) a broadcast, fifty years from the end of the year in which the broadcast first takes place;
(d) a programme-carrying signal, fifty years from the end of the year in which the signal is
first emitted to a satellite;
(e) a published edition, fifty years from the end of the year in which the edition is first
published;
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