# Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Section 106: Presumptions relevant to works subject to Crown copyright.


In proceedings brought by virtue of this Chapter with respect to a literary, dramatic or musical work in which Crown copyright subsists, where there appears on printed copies of the work a statement of the year in which the work was first published commercially, that statement shall be admissible as evidence of the fact stated and shall be presumed to be correct in the absence of evidence to the contrary.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/106 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/section-106
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