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Author: http://www.rufuspollock.org/
Timestamp: 2009-10-26 11:29:56.039446
Log Message: Updating factlet "Copyright Act 1911 (UK)" (aec2f7da-a96e-4402-8f5c-a4af6009cee8)
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Copyright Act 1911 (UK)
Attribute Change start - None + 1911
start_normed - None + 1911
start_ordered - None + 1911.0
description - None + 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 + * Removed common law copyright in unpublished works, apart from unpublished paintings drawings and photographs.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.
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