{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/duration-of-copyright-and-rights-in-performances-regulations-1995/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/duration-of-copyright-and-rights-in-performances-regulations-1995/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3297",
  "legislation_title": "The Duration of Copyright and Rights in Performances Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/duration-of-copyright-and-rights-in-performances-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Ownership of revived copyright",
  "text": "(1) The person who was the owner of the copyright in a work immediately before it expired (the “former copyright owner\") is as from commencement the owner of any revived copyright in the work, subject as follows.\n(2) If the former copyright owner has died before commencement, or in the case of a legal person has ceased to exist before commencement, the revived copyright shall vest—\n(a) in the case of a film, in the principal director of the film or his personal representatives, and\n(b) in any other case, in the author of the work or his personal representatives.\n(3) Where revived copyright vests in personal representatives by virtue of paragraph (2), it shall be held by them for the benefit of the person who would have been entitled to it had it been vested in the principal director or author immediately before his death and had devolved as part of his estate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/3297/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:55:11.580928+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."
}