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Major rewrite to consolidate UK copyright law. Also provided the following new features (among others):

• Extension of copyright term to life and fifty years.
• Records, perforated rolls, sound recordings and works of architecture gained copyright.
• Abolishment of registration requirement (in line with Berne). It had previously been a requirement to register copyright with Stationers Hall.
• Removed common law copyright in unpublished works, apart from unpublished paintings drawings and photographs.
• Last twenty-five years of copyright term were unassignable by the author during his/her lifetime together with provision that during the last twenty-five years any person may reproduce a work without consent on payment of a ten per cent royalty.
• Exclusive right of dramatising and translating secured to the author.