{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-act-1956/schedule-EIGHTH/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/74",
  "legislation_title": "Copyright Act 1956",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-act-1956",
  "path": "schedule/EIGHTH/paragraph/5",
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  "number": "5",
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  "text": "S. 17 (1) of Copyright Act, 1911 (referred to in paragraph 9 of Seventh Schedule):—\nIn the case of a literary, dramatic or musical work, or an engraving, in which copyright subsists at the date of the death of the author or, in the case of a work of joint authorship, at or immediately before the date of the death of the author who dies last, but which has not been published, nor, in the case of a dramatic or musical work, been performed in public, nor, in the case of a lecture, been delivered in public, before that date, . . . the proviso to section three of this Act shall . . . apply as if the author had died at the date of such publication or performance or delivery in public as aforesaid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/74/schedule/EIGHTH/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:14:18.136002+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}