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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-act-1956/schedule-EIGHTH/paragraph-7",
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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/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "S. 17 (2) of the Copyright Act, 1911 (referred to in paragraph 29 of Seventh Schedule):—\nThe ownership of an author's manuscript after his death, where such ownership has been acquired under a testamentary disposition made by the author and the manuscript is of a work which has not been published nor performed in public nor delivered in public, shall be prima facie proof of the copyright being with the owner of the manuscript.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/74/schedule/EIGHTH/paragraph/7",
    "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."
}