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COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 97

Ownership of copyright in sound recordings

  (1)   This section has effect subject to Parts VII and X.

  (2)   Subject to subsection   (3), the maker of a sound recording is the owner of any copyright subsisting in the recording by virtue of this Part.

  (2A)   If there is more than one owner of the copyright in a sound recording of a live performance, the owners own the copyright as tenants in common in equal shares.

  (3)   Where:

  (a)   a person makes, for valuable consideration, an agreement with another person for the making of a sound recording by the other person; and

  (b)   the recording is made in pursuance of the agreement;

the first - mentioned person is, in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, the owner of any copyright subsisting in the recording by virtue of this Part.


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