Article 3 Literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works first published before 1st June 1957: replacement of restriction on the application of Part 1 of the Act to countries that are party to the Berne Convention or are WTO membersI1

United Kingdom

In article 2 (Berne Convention^f1 parties and WTO members: restriction on the application of Part 1 of the Act to certain works first published before 1st June 1957), for paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2)

Paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 1 to the Act (copyright: transitional provisions and savings) does not apply in relation to a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work first published before 1st June 1957 in so far as its application would otherwise prevent the work from qualifying for copyright protection under section 154^f2 (qualification by reference to author).”

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Art. 3 comes into force in accordance with art. 1(2)

Footnotes

f1: Cm. 1212; “the Berne Convention” is defined in section 159(9) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48).
f2: Section 154 was amended by regulations 4 and 5(3) of S.I. 1995/3297, section 22(1) of the Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18), regulations 2 and 14 of S.I. 2019/605, section 2(3) of the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 (c. 8), and regulation 2(2) of, and Schedule 2 to, S.I. 2003/2498.