On 25/05/2013,
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incorporating all amendments published on or before 25/05/2013.
The closest version currently available is that of 20/02/1987.
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—(1) Where it appears to the Minister that it is desirable that this Act should apply in relation to an organisation —
(a)
of which two or more countries, or the Governments of two or more countries, are members; or
(b)
that is constituted by persons representing two or more countries, or representing the Governments of two or more countries,
the Minister may by regulations made under this Act declare that organisation to be an international organisation to which this Act applies.
(2) An international organisation to which this Act applies that otherwise does not have, or at some material time otherwise did not have, the legal capacities of a body corporate shall have, and shall be deemed at all material times to have had, the legal capacities of a body corporate for the purpose of holding, dealing with and enforcing copyright and for the purposes of all legal proceedings relating to copyright.
(3) Where an original work, or a sound recording or a cinematograph film is made by or under the direction or control of an international organisation to which this Act applies in such circumstances that copyright would not subsist in the work, sound recording or cinematograph film apart from this subsection —
(a)
copyright shall subsist in the work, sound recording or cinematograph film;
(b)
that copyright shall subsist so long as the work, sound recording or cinematograph film remains unpublished; and
(c)
the organisation shall, subject to Part X, be the owner of that copyright.
(4) Where an original work, or a sound recording or a cinematograph film is first published by or under the direction or control of an international organisation to which this Act applies, in such circumstances that, apart from this subsection, copyright would not subsist in the work, the sound recording or cinematograph film, as the case may be, immediately after the first publication thereof —
(a)
copyright shall subsist in the work, sound recording or cinematograph film, or, if copyright in the work, sound recording or cinematograph film subsisted immediately before its first publication, copyright shall continue to subsist in the work, sound recording or cinematograph film;
(b)
that copyright shall subsist until the expiration of 50 years after the expiration of the calendar year in which the work, sound recording or cinematograph film, as the case may be, was first published; and
(c)
the organisation shall, subject to Part X, be the owner of that copyright.
(5) Where an edition of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or of two or more literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works, other than an edition that reproduces a previous edition of the same work or works, is published by, or under the direction or control of, an international organisation to which this Act applies in such circumstances that copyright would not, apart from this subsection, subsist in the edition immediately after the first publication of the edition —
(a)
copyright shall subsist in the edition;
(b)
that copyright shall subsist until the expiration of 25 years after the expiration of the calendar year in which the edition was first published; and
(c)
the organisation shall, subject to Part X, be the owner of that copyright.