COPYRIGHT AND NEIGHBOURING RIGHTS ACT (AS AMENDED)
(c) in any other case, the right to be identified in a manner likely to bring his identity to the
attention of a person seeing or hearing the performance, exhibition, showing, broadcast
or cable programme in question;
and the identification in each case shall be clear and reasonably prominent.
(7) Any reasonable form of identification may be used for the purposes of this section
unless the author or director specifies a pseudonym, initials or some other particular form of
identification, in which event that form shall be used.
62 Exceptions to right to be identified
The right of identification conferred by section sixty-one shall not apply in relation to⎯
(a) any of the following descriptions of work⎯
(i) a computer program; or
(ii) the design of a typeface; or
(iii) any computer-generated work; or
(iv) a work made for the purpose of reporting current events; or
(v) a work in which copyright originally vested in the State or in an international
organisation, unless the author or director has previously been identified as such
in or on published copies of the work;
or
(b) anything done by or with the authority of the owner of the copyright, where copyright in
the work originally vested in the author’s employer; or
(c) anything done which would not amount to an infringement of the copyright in the work
by virtue of subsection (2) of section twenty-five or section twenty-seven, twenty-eight,
twenty-nine, thirty-six, forty-one, forty-two or forty-three; or
(d) publication in⎯
(i) a newspaper, magazine or similar periodical; or
(ii) an encyclopaedia, dictionary, yearbook or other collective work of reference;
of a literary, dramatic or artistic work made for the purposes of such publication or
made available with the consent of the author for the purposes of such publication; or
(e) anything to which the author or director concerned has consented or in regard to which
he has waived his right.
63 Right not to be identified as author or director
(1) The author of a literary or artistic work has the right, for so long as copyright subsists
in the work, not to be identified as its author⎯
(a) on any copies of the work that are issued to the public; or
(b) in the case of a building, by any means visible to persons entering or approaching the
building.
(2) The director of an audio-visual work has the right, for so long as copyright subsists in
the work, not to be identified whenever the work is shown in public, broadcast or included in a
cable programme service, or whenever copies of the work are issued to the public.
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