Copyright Act, 1963
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Denial of copyright to citizens of countries not giving adequate protection to Irish works. |
46.—(1) If it appears to the Government that the laws of a country fail to give adequate protection to Irish works to which this section applies, or fail to give such protection in the case of one or more classes of such works (whether the lack of protection relates to the nature of the work or the country of its author or both), the Government may make an order designating that country and making such provision in relation thereto as is mentioned in the following provisions of this section. | |
(2) An order under this section shall provide that, either generally or in such classes of cases as are specified in the order, copyright under this Act shall not subsist in works to which this section applies which were first published after a date specified in the order, if at the time of their first publication the authors thereof were— | ||
(a) citizens or subjects of the country designated by the order, not being at that time persons domiciled or resident in the State, or | ||
(b) bodies incorporated under the laws of the country designated by the order. | ||
(3) In making an order under this section the Government shall have regard to the nature and extent of the lack of protection for Irish works in consequence of which the order is made. | ||
(4) This section applies to the following works, that is to say, literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works, sound recordings and cinematograph films. | ||
(5) The Government may by order revoke or amend an order under this section including an order under this subsection. | ||
(6) In this section— | ||
“Irish work” means a work of which the author, at the time when the work was made, was a qualified person for the purposes of the relevant provision of this Act; | ||
“author”, in relation to a sound recording or a cinematograph film, means the maker of the recording or film; | ||
“the relevant provision of this Act”, in relation to literary, dramatic and musical works means section 8, in relation to artistic works means section 9, in relation to sound recordings means section 17, and in relation to cinematograph films means section 18 of this Act. |