Copyright (Preservation) Act, 1929

Transfer and devolution of pre-Treaty copyrights.

2.—Every copyright by this Act declared to subsist or deemed to have subsisted in Saorstát Eireann shall be and be deemed always to have been since the establishment of Saorstát Eireann capable of being transferred or otherwise dealt with by act inter vivos or testamentary disposition and of devolving or otherwise passing by act in the law (whether before or after the passing of this Act) as fully in all respects as the same would have been capable of being so transferred or otherwise dealt with and of so devolving or otherwise passing if the Copyright Act, 1911 , and every Order made thereunder and in force on the 5th day of December, 1921, had always been, now were, and hereafter continued to be in full force and effect in Saorstát Eireann.