COPYRIGHT AND NEIGHBOURING RIGHTS ACT (AS AMENDED)
(4) An assignment in terms of subsection (1) shall not be construed as extending to any
rights that are not expressly referred to in the assignment.
(5) A non-exclusive licence may be written or oral or inferred from conduct and, unless
otherwise provided in the licence or in any contract by which the licence was granted, may be
revoked at any time.
(6)
A licence, whether exclusive or non-exclusive, may be registered in terms of Part XI.
(7) A licence granted by the owner of the copyright to which the licence relates shall be
binding upon the owner’s successors in title, except a purchaser in good faith and without notice,
actual or constructive, of the licence or a person deriving title from such a purchaser, and any
reference in this Act to the doing of anything with or without the licence of the owner of the
copyright shall be construed accordingly.
(8) Where the doing of anything is authorised by a licensee or a person deriving title from
the licensee, and it is within the terms, including any implied terms, of the licence for him to
authorise it, it shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be authorised by the person who
granted the licence.
(9) Unless otherwise provided in the licence concerned or in any contract by which the
licence was granted, a licensee may grant a sub-licence authorising another person to do anything
which the licensee is permitted to do by the licence, and this section shall apply, mutatis
mutandis, in respect of any such sub-licence as if it were a licence.
50 Transmission of future copyright
(1) An assignment, testamentary disposition or licence may be made or granted in respect
of the copyright in a future work, or the copyright in an existing work in which copyright does
not subsist but will come into being in the future, and the future copyright in any such work shall
be transmissible as incorporeal movable property.
(2) If, when any future copyright referred to in subsection (1) comes into existence, the
person who if he were living would be entitled to the copyright is dead, the copyright shall
devolve as if it had subsisted immediately before his death and he had then been the owner of the
copyright.
(3) The provisions of this Act relating to the transmission of copyright shall apply, mutatis
mutandis, to the transmission of future copyright referred to in subsection (1).
PART V
INFRINGEMENT AND REMEDIES FOR INFRINGEMENT
51 Infringement
(1) Copyright is infringed by any person who is not the owner of the copyright and who,
without the owner’s authority, does or causes any other person to do an act in Zimbabwe which
the owner has the exclusive right to do or to authorise.
(2) Without derogation from subsection (1), the copyright in a work is infringed by any
person who, without the authority of the owner of the copyright, does any of the following things
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