Industrial Designs Act, 2001

Chapter 2

Authorship and Ownership of Designs

Ownership of designs.

17.—(1) In this Act, the “author” in relation to a design means the person who creates the design.

(2) In the case of a design which is computer-generated, “author” means the person by whom the arrangements necessary for the creation of the design are undertaken.

(3) In this Act, “computer-generated”, in relation to a design, means that the design is generated by computer in circumstances where the author of the design is not an individual.