Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000
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Miscellaneous matters in relation to duration. |
32.—(1) Where the identity of the author of an anonymous or pseudonymous work becomes known or is disclosed after the term of copyright provided in section 24 (2) has expired, the term of copyright provided in subsection (1) of that section shall not apply, and copyright in the work shall be deemed to have expired 70 years from the date on which the work was first lawfully made available to the public. | |
(2) Copyright shall not subsist in an anonymous or pseudonymous literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work, or original database where it is reasonable to presume that the author has been dead for 70 years or more. | ||
(3) Copyright shall not subsist in an anonymous or pseudonymous film where it is reasonable to presume that the last of any of the persons specified in section 25 has been dead for 70 years or more. | ||
(4) In relation to works of joint authorship, the reference in section 24 to the death of the author shall be construed— | ||
(a) where the identity of all of the authors is known, as a reference to the death of the last of the joint authors, or | ||
(b) where the identity of any of the authors is known and the identity of one or more of the others is not, as a reference to the death of the last of the joint authors whose identity is known. | ||
(5) In relation to a work of joint authorship, references to the identity of the author becoming known or being disclosed shall be construed as references to the identity of any of the authors becoming known or being disclosed. |