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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-act-1956/schedule-SECOND/paragraph-1",
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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/SECOND/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
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  "text": "Where the first publication of a literary, dramatic, or musical work, or of an artistic work other than a photograph, is anonymous or pseudonymous, then subject to the following provisions of this Schedule—\n(a) subsection (3) of section two of this Act, or, as the case may be, subsection (4) of section three of this Act, shall not apply, and\n(b) any copyright subsisting in the work by virtue of either of those sections shall continue to subsist until the end of the period of fifty years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was first published, and shall then expire.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/74/schedule/SECOND/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}