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PART XV
SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS UNDER COPYRIGHT (AMENDMENT) ACT 2004
268. In this Part —
“amendment Act” means the Copyright (Amendment) Act 2004;
“appointed day” means 1st January 2005**;
* Date of commencement of the Copyright (Amendment) Act 2004 (Act 52 of 2004).
“performance” has the same meaning as in section 246(1).
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269. Where any licence has been granted, or any contract or arrangement (including any assignment of copyright) has been entered into, before the appointed day, being a licence, contract or arrangement relating to —
(a)
the broadcast of a work or other subject-matter; or
(b)
the inclusion of a work or other subject-matter in a cable programme,
the licence, contract or arrangement shall, subject to any contrary intention, continue to have effect on or after that day in accordance with the provisions of this Act in force immediately before that day, as if the amendment Act had not been enacted.
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270. Section 119, as it was in force immediately before the appointed day, shall apply to an action brought in respect of any infringement of copyright which took place before that day as if the amendment Act had not been enacted.
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271. Section 253, as it was in force immediately before the appointed day, shall apply to an action brought in respect of any unauthorised use of a performance which took place before that day as if the amendment Act had not been enacted.
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272. Section 261 shall only apply to an action brought in respect of any act referred to in section 260(2), (3) or (4) which is carried out on or after the appointed day, and section 261, as it was in force immediately before that day, shall continue to apply to an action brought in respect of any act referred to in section 260 as it was in force immediately before that day which is carried out before that day as if the amendment Act had not been enacted.
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